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...Parish, who got eleven Seattle businessmen to put up the money. As manager of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal since 1937, he boosted that paper's circulation from 39,000 to 55,000. Parish's happiest days had been spent on the Seattle Star, where he rose from newsboy to president and general manager of the Scripps-Canfield chain. In the days before the Scripps boys began meddling with the Star, he had built up the best circulation in the State...
...trying" to get the Sun, while roadmen report large bundles not even opened. Suburban Chicago custom is to deliver papers at the back door. The Sun is left, when it is left at all, at the front door. When one Winnetka housewife asked for back-door delivery, the newsboy said he couldn't do it because the back stoop belonged to the Tribune...
...Chicago street urchin, ex-newsboy, ex-pimp, Willie Bioff did all right by himself in Hollywood. Last week a jury in New York Federal court decided he had done a lot of wrong as well...
...scholarship, established in 1906, is awarded annually to the newsboy who enters Harvard as a Freshman with the highest percentage on admission exams...
...last week for an impressive collective binge to honor a newshawk come home to roost after 22 months on the battlefronts of World War II. Recipient of this kudos was red-faced, balding Robert Joseph Casey, quick of mind and ample of girth, who has been a fair-haired Newsboy since 1920. His standing on the News is such that when his boss, Colonel Frank Knox, congratulated him on a series about the war, he amiably remarked: "I'm glad you like them because they cost you about $600 apiece...