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...bustling Nanking street, a newsboy said, "When headlines cry peace, it's easy to sell papers." Last week, the newsboy sold a lot of papers. A mounting clamor for peace with the Communists, at almost any price, was sweeping Nationalist China's crumbling fronts...
Bender, who reported that he was once a Tribune newsboy, said that if Harvard had to be smeared, he was glad to have it done "by papers people have little use for." He disclosed that freshman enrollment from the Chicago area had increased this year despite the Tribune attacks...
...Waldrop told Washington newsmen with elaborate offhandedness: "After this meeting I invite anyone who cares to join me in the bar for a drink. For once the drinks are on the Times-Herald" ¶ General Manager William C. Shelton, 55, also named an executor, began at ten as a newsboy, has been with the paper since 1922. "This might show the Russians," he exulted, "that capitalists in this country treat the workers right fine." ¶ Supervising Managing Editor Michael W. ("Mike") Flynn, 59, an owl-faced, Washington-born news veteran. ¶Circulation Director Harry A. Robinson, 59, a Russian-born...
...Southern Pacific yards. Young Earl was brought up in a tough, frontier atmosphere, was riding his pet burro down the main street of Bakersfield on the day an outlaw shot & killed Deputy Sheriff William E. Tibbett, father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. He earned pocket money as a newsboy, later as a cub reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. In high school he spent summers as a call-boy waking up railroaders for the S.P., did odd jobs as a freight hustler and farm hand, learned to play the clarinet in the school band. He still carries a card in the musicians...
Louis Rose, 66, tiny, tough-talking director of Circulation ($110,000 a year), is an ex-newsboy, disciple and brother-in-law of the late Max Annenberg. He is the only executive who can stop the presses (with a buzzer that blows a siren in the press room). "Louie" Rose cruises his newsstands at night in a new, $5,000 Packard. His boss bought it, found the roof too low for the high McCormick head, told Rose: "If you like it I'll give it to you." Rose liked...