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When stocky, baldescent Reeves Lewenthal went to Manhattan in-1932, he had been a newsboy, reporter, magazine publisher, hotel publicist and small businessman in Chicago and Detroit. The one job he hated was being a publicity man. In spite of himself, Reeves Lewenthal went on writing publicity. His clients: the late Cass Gilbert and other members of the National Academy of Design, plus some 35 organizations devoted to contemporary...
...quarter-century, through hell & high water, Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson had cherished beyond all other friends his pal Max Annenberg. They had met when Max, forsaking Hearst, was strong-arming his way up as powerful circulation builder for the Chicago Tribune; friendship had deepened as the German-Jewish ex-newsboy pushed circulation of Publisher Patterson's New York Daily News to the largest...
...people. In five minutes more damage was caused than the Luftwaffe has accomplished in London since the war began. Scarcely a building in the entire city was unscarred. "I had noticed a young couple kissing in an automobile. . . . They are somewhere under there now," stuttered a chalk-faced newsboy, pointing in the street to a mountainous pile of masonry that minutes before had been Bucharest's elite, 13-story Carlton apartment house. More than 300 were believed buried in its ruins. A few gained the air-raid cellar and called frantically for aid over a still live telephone wire...
...King of the Newsboys" yesterday added the Harvard CRIMSON to the list of over 11,000 newspapers that he has peddled during his forty years as a newsboy. He is Samuel H. Cole, who has traveled across the United States 41 times and is now on his fifth encirclement of the world. Burdened with two large bars containing souvenirs of his travels, 42,000 autographs of all the great personalities of the world, and sporting a ten gallon bat adorned with a Willkie button, he arrived here with his wife, "Queen" Cole...
King Cole makes his way by hitchhiking and has never had to pay a hotel bill, although he stops at the best, including the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. To cross the ocean, he has worked as a mess boy, steward, and cook. For his incidental expenses, the newsboy earns money peddling papers and writing feature articles about himself...