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...they would have to dust off obsolete recording methods for emergency service. Reason was that bald, long-nosed William Fox, armed with a U. S. Supreme Court patent decision, was out of the well-lined hole into which he was cudgeled four years ago. This half-forgotten ex-newsboy and shoe-polish hawker was bent on raising as much hell as possible in the industry from which he had been exiled. In October 1929, William Fox celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his film enterprises. Frenzied buying and frenzied borrowing had made him the undisputed grand panjandrum of cinema, ruling...
...ticket. It seems to Boss Mayo and his cronies that Ezekiel Cobb is naïve enough for their purposes. When they nominate him, he wanders into a night club with a cigaret-counter girl (Una Merkel), attracts constituents, first by frolicking with chorus girls, then by defending a newsboy who has been mistreated by his rival candidate (Alan Dinehart...
...read by subscribers on Friday afternoon. But rarely if ever does Editor & Publisher tread upon a toe within the industry. Perennial targets on its editorial page are Radio, press agentry, censorship, Freedom of the Press, persons who think advertising rates should be lowered or telegraph rates upped. A newsboy at 7, Editor Pew lately plumped for the 14-year limit for newsboys, against the publishers' lobby. He detests most gossip columnists, calls Walter Winchell a "journalistic gangster...
Nobody knows how many newsboys there are in the U. S. The International Association of Circulation Managers claims 570,000 under 18 years. The 1930 census showed 21,700 under 16 years. The National Child Labor Committee reckons 100,000 under 16, 50,000 under 14. The totals include not only the tattered urchin hawking his wares at street corners in sun or rain but also the well-fed youngster who puts in an hour or two after school serving a delivery route in the residential district. But whatever their number and their methods of work, U. S. newsboys were...
...records for a bicycle trip to New York were broken this week by Harold Frankel '34, diminutive Crimson wrestler and CRIMSON newsboy, who trundled his way to the City of Bright Lights in the time of 19 hours and 40 minutes to win his bet from Henry G. Olken '32 and deliver his message from Mayor Russell of Cambridge to Mayor La Guardia of New York City...