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...continents; if her address were No. 12 St. Luke's Place, three doors from Mayor James J. Walker; if her sister, Tucker Faithfull, were a secretive girl whose full lips and slim legs photographed well; and if the story broke during a heat wave and a scarcity of big news???then, as happened last fortnight, the august New York Times might consider it fit to print front-page for nearly two weeks. Cyrus H. K. Curtis' polite New York Evening Post might feature on its front page a three-column drawing of the girl's family and dog in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Five Starr Faithfull | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

Members discussed whether they should be allowed to broadcast A. P. news???some holding that this cut newspaper sales, others that it provoked public demand for more news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A.P. | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...first stock table, Wall Street stories (including swindles and names), police reports, scandals. He made a sensation of the murder of a famed courtesan. He pried into the doings of the top social set, which never accepted him. The Herald's stories rollicked with color. He treated religion as news???a fact which annoyed clergymen. He published the first ship news, had a sailboat go out to Montauk Point to meet incoming ships. He had correspondents in Washington, D. C., who did not stop at handouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father & Son | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...GOOD NEWS???Song-and-dance marathon which has been running since before college opened last year (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...boded news???perhaps?when Mr. Creager walked into the White House last week, because early in November, when the Coolidge "choosiness" was at its foggiest, Mr. Creager was reported to have promised, in a characteristically red-headed moment, to walk right into the White House some day and "pound on the desk" and ask President Coolidge "just exactly what he meant by choosing not to run." People on the Rio Grande wanted to know, and the red-headed rooster thereof would find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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