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...Newsboy, candy-butcher, Harvard athlete-in three summers as a bus-driver he made $5,000-Kennedy's life has gone in the sections and jerks of a fast freight train. He was a bank examiner for 18 months, a bank president for three years (youngest in the U. S., at 25). For 20 months he built ships for Bethlehem Steel and for an Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt. For two years, nine months he was president of the Film Booking Offices of America, for five months chairman of Keith-Albee-Orpheum, for six weeks special...
...Annenberg's total take from tipster sheets, racing wire services, pulp magazines and the Philadelphia Inquirer has made him probably the richest publisher in the U. S. Beginning as a Chicago newsboy, he worked into the circulation department of the Hearstpapers, became circulation manager of the old Examiner in 1904. The strong-arm tactics used in Chicago's circulation wars gave Moe Annenberg and his older brother Max (now circulation director of the New York Daily News) a reputation that has dogged them throughout their careers. Moe went from Chicago to Milwaukee, from Milwaukee to New York, where...
...Newsboys are also newspapermen, and a true old timer is San Antonio's Horace Greeley J. Heckman, a stoop-shouldered, loose-jointed, slap-happy gaffer of 64, who has been selling the Light on the corner of Travis and North St. Mary's Streets for the past 17 years. Newsboy Heckman says he is an M.A. (for Master Accountant), has worked in eight banks and sold newspapers in New York, California, Mexico, South America and at the Paris Exposition of 1900. He wears an old straw hat and baggy breeches, drinks "sulfur water" out of a whiskey bottle...
Feeling pleased with himself about that, Newsboy Heckman next set about selling his papers, delivering himself thuswise: "They're scrapping the treaties! They'll scrap anything! But they CAIN'T scrap the LORD! He's here to stay! John L. Lewis shouldn't 'a' done it! Old Cactus Jack is all right! My Goodness! My Goodness...
Catching sight of a young woman, Newsboy Heckman accompanied her for half a block, declaring: "The Lord's your shepherd! The Lord's your shepherd! My Goodness, you're getting better looking every day!" After such outbursts police often take him to jail to cool off for a spell...