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...Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street, was flooded when a tank on its roof burst. Next morning the Standard carried a David Low cartoon showing Goring and Goebbels peddling a newspaper called Der Berlin Liar with headlines: "British Press Wiped Out"-and regarding with pained surprise a Cockney newsboy hawking: "Bomb severely damaged in Shoe Lane...
...name is Murphy or Baxendale; if he was descended from Lady Ann Mowlson, Greek parents or certain gentlemen named Reed, Holyoke, Hudson, Borden, Anderson, Bright, Downer, Haven and Pennoyer; if he lives along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. in Iowa; or if he was once a newsboy. He may get a scholarship at Princeton or University of Pennsylvania if his father worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Tulane if his grandfather fought in the Confederate Army, at Dartmouth if he is "a religious man from Missouri...
...share was $13,000. But he had left home years before, after a quarrel. Last Bob & Dan heard of him, he was peddling shoelaces and razor blades around Pittsburgh. Last week Court of Missing Heirs broadcast Gee Jordan's case. In Pittsburgh, a 63-year-old "newsboy" friend of 52 -year-old Gee heard the broadcast, located him, sick, in a $2-a-week furnished room. At week's end, near-toothless, gnarled Gee Jordan rose on his crutches, spruced up, eyed Florida as the place to end his days...
Died. Isaac Meltzer, fiftyish, known to thousands of U. S. tourists as the hyper-peppy U. S. newsboy at Paris' Café de la Paix, in winter at Cannes and Nice; by leaping from the window of the Paris office of the New York Times...
...reserved, ironhanded Charles Eugene Denney (59), taken from the presidency of the bankrupt Erie. It was the late, smart Railroader John J. Bernet (chief operating officer for the Van Sweringen railroad empire) who first saw that Charlie Denney had something. Son of a master watchmaker, Charlie Denney moved from newsboy to Penn State to Union Switch & Signal Co., through a multitude of railroad jobs to general manager of the Nickel Plate. Then Bernet took him to Erie, left him there as president when he went to head Chesapeake & Ohio. A family man, he used to play avidly with electric trains...