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...Mack"), 46, blackface comedian, "head man" of the Moran & Mack team; when he was pinned under the overturned automobile in which he was riding with his wife, daughter, Partner Moran, and Mack Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional base-bailer, streetcar conductor, stage electrician. When comedians remembered and used his quips, he decided to use them himself, toured in vaudeville with a partner named Moran who died of pneumonia. He ran a trunk factory in Cleveland, returned to the stage with Comedian George Searcy who called himself...
...doorway of a frame house in the frontier town of Lawton. Across the street hung the shingle of a young, blind lawyer who had not yet developed his resonant chime-like voice-Thomas Pryor Gore. Frequent court opponents, they were friends, and both had their shoes shined by a newsboy named Riley. In that frontier world all things were possible, for today Thomas and Gore* represent the sovereign State of Oklahoma in the U. S. Senate, and Fletcher Settle Riley is Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, youngest man to hold such an honor in any state. Thomas Pryor...
While no statistics are available, the National Child Labor Committee states that the majority of U. S. newspapers now favor the child labor amendment. Selfish motives are difficult to identify in the opponents since the newsboy problem never has been agitated in connection with the amendment. However, 21 States have laws affecting newsboys which are generally inadequate or ill-enforced-a fact possibly attributable in certain instances to the influence of venal publishers. In 35 States boys under 12 are permitted to sell or distribute papers...
...Stormy Weather," Actress Lynn Fontanne Lunt making up her face, and the show girls of Manhattan's low-priced Paradise night club stepping languidly onto the floor, topheavy in vast headdresses. From unposed angles of posed spectacles Photographer Lohse had progressed to Manhattan scenes at night: a night newsboy buying his papers from a delivery man, idlers mooning into store windows. One series showed pauper children, black & white, eating at a soup-kitchen board; another showed primped little scions of the rich at Publisher Conde Nast's party for his daughter Leslie's third birthday...
...famed Joe Humphries, 63, who grew up in a family of 23 brothers and sisters. A onetime newsboy, his 45 years of bellowing announcements at boxing & wrestling matches, bicycle races, golf tournaments, track meets, rodeos and regattas have made him Stentor of U. S. Sport and his amiable, snaggle-toothed face familiar to millions of sport-goers...