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...Post also took a critical look at Winchell's relations with "the baddies" in the underworld. Commented the Post: " 'The baddies' have staked their newsboy pal to some pretty good beats," such as the surrender of Killer Lepke to Winchell on Aug. 24, 1939, and the murder of Mad Dog Coll. During the Kefauver hearings, Winchell ran a column of anecdotes in which he "remembered all sorts of things about Frank Costello-all nice," and followed it up later with an exclusive interview picturing him "as an authority on how to stamp out crime...
...George, F.D.R., Gandhi, Mussolini), sometime political dabbler (cochairman of the Progressive Citizens of America in 1947, co-chairman of the Wallace-for-President Committee in 1948) ; of a heart attack; in Tours, France. Born of Russian-Jewish immigrants on Manhattan's lower East Side, Davidson began as a newsboy. In 1907 he headed for Europe with a $40 stake to study art. Since 1910 he had shuttled busily and profitably between the U.S. and Europe. His most important commission: bronze busts of World War I's allied leaders. Davidson's own bland explanation of success...
...quite so dramatic and revealing as Sarnoff's. Owen D. Young said that Sarnoff had lived "the most amazing romance of its kind on record." Horatio Alger himself could hardly have done it in one book; he would have needed Adrift in New York, Nelson the Newsboy, The Telegraph Boy and Joe's Luck or Always Wide Awake...
...early years in Dayton were more often spent seeking jobs than being sought after. Of Yankee and German Swiss stock, the son of a high-school manual training teacher, Stanton started earning money as a newsboy. After school he worked at the Metropolitan men's clothing store where he progressed from stock boy to window trimmer and showcard artist. His former boss, Richard Meyer, recalls that Stanton was wise beyond his years: "We used to get into arguments about religion and sex -on a very serious plane. Most fellows his age didn't worry about those things...
...Dakota's rawboned, unpredictable Bill Langer, who stepped up with much-needed relief for the Democratic corporal's guard. Langer had been obstinately against the bill from its inception, and began his harangue in the clangorous voice that makes every sentence sound like the cry of a newsboy with an extra. Weary Senators drifted off to doze on black leather couches in corridors or handy offices, leaving a few sentinels to guard the Senate floor. Shortly after 2 a.m., one of Langer's roars, punctuated by a crashing thump of his fist, frightened a sleeping page...