Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though he still "didn't know of an easier way to make $10,000," if the wager were on the final figures of Digest and News, Mr. Funk felt that "as a matter of policy it would be impossible for the Literary Digest to bet on its' own poll. . . . The magazine takes no sides . . . plays no favorites...
...mentioned syphilis in a report of a St. Louis meeting of the Na tional Society for the Prevention of Blind ness. Last year breaks in the taboo began appearing far & wide. The Chicago Tribune published three full-page articles on syphilis in its Sunday editions. In New York, the News (circulation 1,629,000), put on a campaign to publicize syphilis with news stories, editorials, cartoons, has sold 16,054 reprints at 5? each. The more conservative New York Herald Tribune and New York Times began putting the word "syphilis"into their headlines. By last week some 125 newspapers...
Died. Marlen Edwin Pew, 58, lifelong newshawk who in 1912 helped organize the United Press, onetime (1919-22) manager of Hearst's International News Service from which he resigned "on principle," from 1924 until his retirement last June (TIME, June 15) editor and vice president of Editor & Publisher; after a throat operation; in Manhattan...
...lost $400 contributed by fellow workers to a benefit fund, through betting on himself. When things look their blackest, Big Steve learns that his faithless sweetheart really gave the money to her old friend Bill, who bet it on the professional. Big Steve fishes the bearer of the news, Mrs. Finney's little boy, out of a slag box just before a mass of red-hot slag pours into it. Afterward he smashes Bill Morgan's jaw, takes the money back, confers with Mrs. Finney about matrimony...
...story is by Fictionist-Sports Writer Paul Gallico, whose years on the sports desk of the New York Daily News doubtless make him a world authority on difficult newspaper temperaments...