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...rich and respected Bulletin remembers all too well, there was a time in Philadelphia when nearly everybody didn't read it. A onetime Pittsburgh newsboy named William L. McLean, father of Robert, changed Philadelphia's reading habits. When he borrowed $73,000 to buy the Bulletin in 1895, it was last (circ. 6,700) in a field of 13 dailies. A decade later it was out in front to stay (it now has over 800,000 a day). McLean put it there by giving Philadelphians what they seemed to want: all the news (no matter how trivial), sold...
...committee has sent magicians, bands, current events speakers, and group singing leaders to boys' clubs, community houses, and church bazaars for the past several weeks. New plans call for the sponsoring of theatrical presentations at various settlement houses, such as the ones conducted this past week at the Burroughs Newsboy Foundation, and the organization of complete entertainment units...
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...