Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to the item you carried about my trouble in TIME Magazine [TIME, Nov. 7], it has been rumored here that I sent this news to your magazine for publication! How absurd this is! I can truthfully say I never sent publicity to a magazine or a newspaper in my life unless I was asked for it. I've never answered a critical book review. I feel like I've had my 'say' in the book and the reviewer is entitled to express his opinion. But when a constable hits me three times over the head...
...simply making friends with men who might be needed in a crisis. This could be gracefully done under the sponsorship of an elder statesman no longer in active politics. No newspaper printed the diners' names, Buckingham Palace having passed the word down that they should be omitted from news stories to prevent "unfortunate speculation...
...frank interview with the most hated German of 1918 about the most hated German of 1938 would be news in any language. Last week, Ken ("The Insider's World"), carried, well inside its lush pages, something that purported to be such a scoop. Titled "The Kaiser on Hitler" and signed by "W. Burckhardt," it described an interview at Doom during "that tense last week of September." Author "Burckhardt" pictured the once All-Highest pacing up and down and throwing off such amazing indiscretions as: "There's a man alone, without family, without children, without God. Why should...
Claiming a walkout of more than half the 1,000 employes eligible, the Guild closed 71 of the 91 Hearst home circulation offices the first day. On the second the American advertised "$5 FOR PHOTOS." Later the Herex offered "$50 WEEKLY FOR NEWS TIPS AND NEWS PICTURES. . . . ALL INFORMATION IS CONFIDENTIAL." But both papers continued to get editions out with police assistance. Most distant striker: American Sports Writer Jim Gallagher, who was in New Orleans for a baseball meeting. Notable strike breaker: Margaret ("Maggie") Sikora, who has been working as a Herex stenographer since her "Model Husband," Rudolph, was acquitted...
...high ranking scholar, Levin says that he "just took to it." In addition to informal playing, or "jamming with Bennie Goodman and Casa-Loma, he has worked out with some of the players from Count Basie's and Andy Kerk's orchestras. Every week Levin sends to the "cleveland News" a column called "Swing," which tells of the activities of the important bands in Ohio...