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...become "the hero of 16,000 inarticulate but devoted followers, and the devil of most of the respectable element?" He is only 26; frail, nervous, bespectacled, a well-above-the-average college Jew and radical intellectual. In Manhattan and Brooklyn he had once plied the trades of newsboy, grocery clerk, clothing factory worker, soda jerker. C. C. N. Y. taught him letters, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key; Harvard schooled him in law. Said he, "But I never intended to practice. I only studied law so as to better understand the system. I wanted to know all the tricks...
Famed Ladies' Home Journalist Edward William Bok was cradled at drowsy Helder, in the Netherlands, has achieved newsboy-to-vice-president&* success during his last 47 years (spent mostly in the U. S.). Recently he returned to the Netherlands, ferreted (with intent to laud) into the question of how much "success" Queen Wilhelmina has achieved during the quarter century of her reign. Mr. Bok saw much, and what he saw was good. Last week he conveyed to the Queen whose sovereignty he escaped by "Americanization" a memento of esteem-a stained glass window for the Nieuwe Kirk at Delft...
...Detroit Tribune was burned out, and the outspoken tabloid News rose from its ashes. Edward Scripps worked up in three years from newsboy to legislative reporter. His sister Ellen Browning Scripps (TIME, Feb. 22, EDUCATION) joined the family group as rewriter and condenser. In after years, Edward was to remain very close to this sister throughout all his activities...
Busy Londoners scurrying home from "the city" were arrested last week by an appeal from newsboy throats which was not to be withstood: "Get your Evening News! New story by Hans Christian Andersen! Paper...
...American premiere was staged by Morris Gest, who started his life in this country as a newsboy kin Harvard Square. The Century Theatre in New York was converted into a cathedral and the opening took place on January 15, 1924. During its 10-months run in New York the box office receipts totalled almost two and a half million dollars...