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Cagney is in fighting trim for his part, and the script by Charles Lederer, who also directed, gives him some fairly lively canvas to bounce around on. The songs are not much, but Cagney carries them off nicely in a hollered-out, newsboy alto that makes Shirley (Oklahoma!) Jones, the girl he doesn't get, sound like Renata Tebaldi. But not even the pleasure of catching Cagney at close to his best can entirely appease the sense that this is really an amoral little movie. Not even the greediest hands in labor's till have ever publicly demanded...
Died. Sammy Bronstein, 81, onetime St. Louis newsboy who turned to money-lending, helped St. Louis newsmen make it from one payday to the next, charged them interest at rates upwards of 5% a week; of uremic poisoning; in St. Louis. Young Sammy engineered a steady $2.50-a-week retainer from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after he spotted Founder Joseph Pulitzer on the street, pretended not to know who he was, followed him for blocks trying to sell him a copy of the Post-Dispatch. Later, in his banking days, he was ready 24 hours a day to back...
Malcolm Ticknor, whose facial expressions were delightful and Arthur Papas contributed some very lovely singing, while O'Brien Nicholas' portrayal of the love-lorn newsboy was amusing and tender. The ensemble singing was, on the whole, very stylish...
From this aggressive faith in the rewards of enterprise, hardheaded Newsboy Gannett (accent on the nett) never wavered. It led him, frustratingly, into politics, notably as the highly unsuccessful "businessman's candidate" for the Republican presidential nomination in 1940, into propaganda as angel and pamphleteer for the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government and sundry other ultraconservative pressure groups. Through industry and acumen, round-faced, open-handed Frank Gannett also built one of the nation's biggest and most profitable newspaper empires. When he died last week in Rochester at 81, long-ailing Frank Gannett not only owned...
...Francisco newsboy, eying a pile of free copies of the Times in a hotel lobby, protested Ioudly; "What a lousy trick!" San Francisco newspaper executives were more discreet, but they began some hard thinking about the future. They stressed probable obstacles to electronic distribution of a national newspaper e.g., the opposition of the typographical unions, the problem of handling local advertising. Times Managing Editor Turner Catledge who pronounced the experiment a technical success granted that the paper had not yet thought through such problems. But he said that the Times was looking ahead to distributing its editions not only...