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...Born in Chicago of Swedish parents, raised in Decatur, he was a talented ventriloquist, magician and odd-jobs-man before he enrolled in the speech department. At Northwestern he scraped up $35 to have Charlie McCarthy made by a wood carver named Charlie Mack. The model was an Evanston newsboy. After college, Bergen and McCarthy took a job in a vaudeville house near Chicago's stockyards, doing four shows a day for $8 a week and enduring a smell Charlie didn't notice. Bergen's radio and motion picture earnings this year should total over...
...return to Chase and Hutchins, Arriving in San Francisco, they boarded the "Colorado" and were soon headed in the direction of the Hawaiian Islands. On one of their off afternoons at the islands, the boys were basking on the sands of Waikiki beach. A newsboy appeared, shouting the fact that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were lost. Chase and Hutchins were sorry, but they went right on basking, little realizing what was to happen...
Prime requisite of a fireman is the ability to think fast in an emergency. Last week, the firemen of Boise, Idaho did so. Roused a few minutes after 3 a.m. by a newsboy who had noticed a pile of straw burning in a corral, firemen raced to the scene, found flames licking at a barn belonging to the Myron Jacobs Riding Academy, where swank Boiseans stable their horses. The Riding Academy is 25 ft. outside Boise's city limits. A city ordinance forbids the fire department to fight fires outside Boise, and firemen injured doing so get no compensation...
...Federation of Labor, most potent Socialist-Communist labor group, threw in its lot with the new Government and the menace of Anarcho-Syndicalists, largely industrial workers, shrank proportionately. His other and bigger job-winning the war- he tackled by giving the strongest politician on the Leftist side, onetime Bilbao newsboy Indalecio Prieto, sole charge of the War, Navy, Air and Munitions Ministries. For the first time in the Civil War, all the reins of defense and attack were thus in the hands of one man. Spunky General Jose Miaja ("The Savior of Madrid") reassumed civil and military control...
...Steve Brodie, 23, Bowery newsboy, bootblack and publicity glutton, claimed to have jumped from Brooklyn Bridge July 23, 1886. Evidence persists, however, that a dummy was dropped from the bridge, while Brodie hid on a pier below, and dived in as the dummy struck. His story at the time was believed. A brewery financed a saloon for him. He made stage appearances, flourished for years, died of tuberculosis in 1901 in San Antonio...