Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that party. Bradish Johnson, the dead chocolate-passer, was a 26-year-old Manhattan socialite who had spent much of his life in Paris, was taking photographs and sending articles from Spain to Newsweek and The Spur. The other fatality was Ernest Richard Sheepshanks of the British Reuters News Service. A superior young British bachelor, he was once captain of the Eton cricket eleven, followed the armies of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, and won the awed admiration of Italian aviators in Salamanca by dressing for the war in a shepherd's plaid shooting jacket and ponderous suede shoes...
Above other British news last week towered the fact that King George and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had finally done something handsome about "Van." In the Empire's tight little ruling caste no great figure is more generally admired and heeded than Sir Robert Gilbert...
...Parliament. Beyond all this, Sir Robert, himself, is recognized as a brilliant, persuasive and what the British call "sound" man, at whose London house the Prime Minister of the day and even the King are glad to lunch or dine. It was no wonder, therefore, that two small news items about Sir Robert last week provided official Britain with its chief topic of holiday conversation...
...Erdmann Neumeister Brandt's (whose brother runs the prominent literary agency of Brandt & Brandt) string includes many younger male fictioneers whom he, like Graeme Lorimer, has a knack of developing. Red of face and hair, Associate Editor Martin Sommers, who spills out topical information like a teletype, applies news sense developed on the Mew York News to conceiving and abetting articles on sport and politics...
...Saturday Evening Post was not founded by Benjamin Franklin, as blazoned from the Post's headband. Franklin died in 1790. The Post began publication, as a compendium of news and literary contributions, August 4, 1821, in a little printing shop on Philadelphia's Market Street which happened to have inherited Franklin's old hand press, a few fonts of his type and the goodwill of his defunct Pennsylvania Gazette...