Word: newsboys
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...country, while hostesses gave "come as you were" parties and restaurants offered "reincarnation cocktails," ordinary Americans began turning up (often on TV screens) in earlier lifetimes as German leather merchants, French peasants, English princesses, and; in one case, a horse. In Shawnee, Okla., Bridey intrigued a 19-year-old newsboy so mightily that he killed himself after leaving a note that he was going to "investigate the theory in person...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, leave the old Southern Hotel, Sammy pretended not to know him and dogged him all the way to the office, insisting that he buy a Post-Dispatch. Pulitzer was so impressed by his salesmanship that he put him on a $2.50-a-week retainer as a newsboy...
Just 50 years had passed since the Boston Newsboys' Protective Union first thought up the idea: Why not help send one bright newsboy each year to Harvard? In 1906, the union started doing just that, and though it was disbanded in 1916, its Boston Newsboys' Scholarship Fund became a permanent part of Harvard. Last week, as it celebrated its Golden Anniversary, the fund could justly claim that once given a boost, a newsboy is hard to beat...
...school class at the Calvary Baptist Church, Yonkers. N.Y., that he plans to give 10%, or more than $1,100, of his World Series money to his home church. Trinity Baptist in Lake Charles, La. Baptist Dark began giving "10% of my earnings to God" when he was a newsboy making $2.50 a week, has tithed faithfully ever since...
...Senator McCarthy's home state, the Journal attacks him so fiercely that McCarthy calls it "that left-wing smear newspaper, the Milwaukee edition of the Daily Worker" Other readers, damning its doggedly independent, liberal ways, refer to it as "that damn Journal." (One prominent Milwaukeean pays his newsboy 25? a week to tear out the editorial page before delivering the paper.) Isolationist Chicago Tribune Publisher Colonel Robert McCormick, who considers the Journal a radical upstart in the Trib's Chicagoland, calls it a "wood pussy...