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Another complained that the subject in which he was interested, German, was not listed in the University's catalogue. The five pages devoted to this subject apparently escaped the newshawk's eyes...
...Albert Einstein. He quickly convinced reporters that he was indeed a marvel at quick mental calculation. He would say, "Think of a number from one to a bil lion," multiply the number given by a smaller number and have the answer in a few seconds. He would ask a newshawk for the date of his birth and then, after a moment of cogitation, tell him what day of the week it had been...
...made an inaccurate and erroneous statement in your issue of Dec. 27. ... You said: "That the finance companies were not entirely innocent of shenanigans appeared, however, with the revelation that they had hired a onetime newshawk named Harry G. Croy to investigate the personnel of the grand jury...
TIME, in company with newspapers reporting the trial, erred. Newshawk Croy was hired by Phillip W. Haberman, attorney for Universal Credit, who says he wanted to find out why accounts of the supposedly secret Grand Jury proceedings were getting to the press. But all the finance companies, Commercial Credit included, would have benefited if Newshawk Croy had found out anything...
...legend was created by the late Chicago Newshawk Michael Ahern and associates. Nobody knows the real cause of the Chicago fire...