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...Wilkes-Barre, Pa. murder the "American Tragedy." Philadelphia Record editors said it was their reporter Andrew MacLain ("Mac") Parker. City Editor Charles Israel of the Philadelphia Bulletin said it was himself. The city editor of the Scranton Times credited a United Press man. Possibly all three, and many another newshawk, swooped at once on the catch-phrase the moment they heard, two months ago. that Robert Allan Edwards, 21, was accused of bashing his pregnant girl over the head in a lake so he could marry his other girl. That was exactly the plot of Theodore Dreiser's An American...
Kentucky-born 50 years ago "Missy" Meloney at 15 worked on the Washington Post, at 16 helped cover a Republican National Convention for the New York World. Like many a crack newshawk she served her hitch on the rowdy Denver Post, and was the first woman reporter ever admitted to the U. S. Senate Press Gallery. She was editor of Delineator in 1926 when her good friends the Reids invited her to take charge of the Herald Tribune magazine. The magazine is said to be a money-loser at present, but beyond doubt it pulls substantial circulation. Like Helen Reid...
Topping our little tale yesterday of the efficient Boston newshawk comes another, even greater revelation. Always eager to please its Harvard Circulation the sedate editorial board of "Today's Truth, Tomorrow's Trend" has instituted a new column dealing solely with facts and fancies of the Harvard man and his University. And always eager to please both sides, the master minds of Washington Street have chosen the motto of our great rival in New Haven as its title "Lux et Veritas...
...spent the summer at Carmel, N. Y., playing in the Rockridge Theatre stock company. One night last fortnight Reporter Gerald E. MacDonald of the neighboring Pawling Chronicle heard members of the theatre school chattering excitedly over Hélène's wedding. Busily Newshawk MacDonald gathered details of how Hélène, acting in Three Cornered Moon, had invited from Manhattan a weekend guest named John Marshall Jr., direct descendant of the great Chief Justice of the U. S.; how she had impetuously told her companions that she was going to be married; how John Marshall...
...foregoing Newshawk MacDonald reported to his chief, Editor William Brown Meloney of the Pawling Chronicle. Mrs. William Brown Meloney, Editor Meloney's mother and intimate friend of the Herbert Hoovers, edits the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine section. Son William also covers the vicinity for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times. To both papers he flashed a full report of the Fortescue wedding. Last week both duly printed it at length on their society pages. Next day Editor Meloney received a sharp message from the Times. The families of bride and groom...