Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Chicago's hollow-eyed lively Attorney Mary Belle Spencer has been a stock figure in that city's news. During the Hauptmann trial, she circularized the Hunterdon County, N. J. venire rolls with a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent. During the Century of Progress, she tried to have Fan Dancer Sally Rand jailed for indecency. Same year Attorney Spencer was herself haled into court to explain why she had never sent her two daughters to school. Daughters Victoria, now 14, and Mary Belle II, 16, their mother then explained, had been brought up without...
Story broke when Daughter Mary Belle eloped from her home in suburban Chicago Heights to La Porte, Ind. with a 6-ft. 4 in., 21-year-old, 200-lb. onetime high-school athlete named J. Edward Wright. When this news was announced by Mrs. Spencer, the Hearstian Evening American gave it an eight-column, front-page streamer headline. Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News front-paged the story with a two-column picture of the bride. The tabloid Times devoted its entire front page to Mary Belle, followed up inside with strips of pictures, additional copy...
Last week, this reputation was well sustained when the Chattanooga Free Press emerged from gangling adolescence as a full-fledged rival of Chattanooga's two established dailies-the morning Times and afternoon News...
Last week in the oak-paneled board room of Philadelphia's Curtis Publishing Co. the directors gathered to hear a grave piece of news. After nearly 39 years, the company's most famed employe was quitting. Reason was that, at 68, George Horace Lorimer felt it was time to turn from the chairmanship of Curtis' board to his own affairs, from the editorship of the Saturday Evening Post to his own writing...
...founding in May 1933, the sheet was a weekly give-away appearing on Thursday afternoons. It was started by a 35-year-old groceryman named Roy McDonald who built up a chain of 50 stores in Chattanooga, wanted to advertise them but thought space rates in the Times and News too high. For some reason, his little Free Press caught the public fancy. Last year it got a real boost when the Times fired Managing Editor William G. Foster to take on Pulitzer Prize Winner Julian Harris (TIME, Aug. 19, 1935). Hired by the Free Press, Editor Foster built...