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Affectionately called "Senator" by the last three U. S. Presidents, Newshawk Young is often trotted out at whistle stops, on campaign train-trips, and introduced to assembled citizens, whom he forthwith favors with any one of his numbered orations (No. 5, "Mother Love"; No. 7, "'Our Flag"; No. 22, "America the Beautiful"; No. 19, "Sanctity of the Home"; No. 11, "For a United Party...
Things went so well in 1938 that the Boss ordered Newshawk Godwin re-elected in 1939. But recently, in keeping with the times, "Pumpkinhead" has been mumbling about a third term. Last week, vacationing in Coral Gables, Boss Young suddenly decided against it, telephoned his hatchetman, knife-witted George Durno of International News Service...
...Senator" told Hatchet-man Durno he had chosen as 1940 president the New York Times'?, alert Felix Belair Jr. Balding Newshawk Durno grumbled that Vice President John O'Brien of the Philadelphia Inquirer was next in line; added that Belair didn't want to run. Gruffed the Boss: "I'm not asking him, I'm telling him." Thus, on a Good Government platform, Felix Belair Jr. was this week elected W. H. C. A. president-as correspondents all over the city deserted press rooms, cabbed to the White House, voted 100% Belair on the slogan...
...Newshawk Young could have retired seven years ago on half-pay, refused because retirement might interfere with 1) his chess-playing, 2) a steady flow of scoops to his paper...
...from which Lewis Milestone had already made a picture (1931). Hawks remade the picture, changed its title to His Girl Friday. The result is not just another remake, for Director Hawks's weird idea was also to remake the sex of his leading character. Hildy Johnson, ace newshawk, played by tough-talking Lee Tracy on the stage, grim Pat O'Brien in pictures, has been cinemorphosed into Hildegarde Johnson, female reporter...