Word: newsboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tiny (5 ft. 4 in.), gimlet-eyed Hinky Dink Kenna had run the roaring First Ward-the Loop and the near South Side-with grasping fingers and a cunning brain, for almost half a century. He had started his climb to power early; he was orphaned and a newsboy at twelve, two years before the Great Fire. When he was 24 he owned a saloon (with a dice game upstairs) and was edging into Democratic politics...
Numerous requests are received by PBH from such widely varied organizations as West End House, Emerson and Wellesley Colleges, church groups, and the Burroughs Newsboy Foundation. The veriety of these requests is wide: academic subjects, current events, war service, music for benefits, and entertainment at veterans' hospitals are among the many fields in which undergraduates are needed for volunteer work...
...swore out a warrant in San Diego for the lady friend he surprised last January by marrying another (TIME, Jan. 21). Lucy Rogers Malcolmson, charged the Marine ace, had stolen $9,340 he had sent her for the care of his children by his first wife (who married a newsboy last March). When the news reached Reno, Miss Malcolmson, who was preparing to become a landlady for marital transients, promptly disappeared. Six days later she was still missing...
Citizens big & small chipped in: Carmelo Digerlando, 64, a blue-aproned shoemaker whose eyes have grown dim and his hair white since he left Sicily 40 years ago; Judge T. Linus Hoban, a war hero; thrifty, 13-year-old newsboy Harold Kornfeld; live wire Roy Stauffer, Chevrolet dealer. Total number of bond buyers...
...Indianapolis, Mrs. Marietta Buchanan, whose son was lost in the Pacific, cried with rage: "I'd like to fly over there and drop more bombs myself." In Tulsa, a newsboy hawking extras cried out: "Japs Surrendering." Asked a woman war worker: "Are there comics in this paper...