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...summer people" and the sailors from the Naval station. For 17 years the Mayor of Newport has always been a Democrat. Last week, though, Newporters, in political tune with the rest of their Congressional district (see p. 20), chose a Republican named Henry Stevens Wheeler, 41, onetime newshawk. While local red-bloods were solely responsible for the change, visiting bluebloods warmly applauded over their teacups...
Last week Reader's Digest published a noteworthy article called "-And Sudden Death." Its author was a Manhattan newshawk named Joseph C. Furnas. The article was thus prefaced: Like the gruesome spectacle of a bad automobile accident itself, the realistic details of this article will nauseate some readers. Those who find themselves thus affected at the outset are cautioned against reading this article in its entirety...
...pallbearer at Theodore Roosevelt's funeral and supply a night's free lodging to Edward of Wales. Promoter Curley drinks no alcohol, insists on driving his own car, married his secretary 15 years ago. His 22-year-old son by his first wife is now a newshawk on the New York American, which frequently derides the validity of Promoter Curley's exhibitions. Convinced by 40 years of experience that this is not a determining factor in their popularity, Promoter Curley says that he has never, to the best of his knowledge and belief, promoted anything dishonest...
...Tribune's crusading Reporter Shannon Cormack happened to let an error of fact into a story he wrote last February about Circuit Judge Jefferson B. Browne, who was trying a Florida State Senator on gambling charges. Cited for contempt, fined $50 and sentenced to one day in jail, Newshawk Cormack appealed. Last week, all appeals having failed, Cormack served his one-day sentence...
...Massachusetts Stowells who reached the U. S. in 1640. His father, a teacher, died when Harlow and his brother John were boys. Though there was not much money for their education,† both went to Carthage Academy. After Carthage, young Harlow worked for a year as a newshawk, retains to this day a journalistic sense which makes his books (Flights from Chaos, Star Clusters) popular, his lectures non-soporific. At 20 he entered the University of Missouri, fell under the spell of Astronomer Frederick Hanley Scares and published, when he was a junior, a juicy paper on "Astronomy in Horace...