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...Francisco is traditionally a good newspaperman's town. Many a crack newshawk got his start there. Many another wishes he might work there. Last week in city rooms all over the land, newsmen kept one eye cocked on San Francisco. A big story was about to break. Not a line had appeared in the news columns of the daily Press, but practically every editor, reporter and desk man knew about it. It was to be the first test of the potency of the American Newspaper Guild. The villain of the story was William Randolph Hearst...
...World Tomorrow, met Frank Cleary Hanighen, Harvardman, 35, then editorial factotum with Publisher Dodd, Mead, last autumn, discovered a mutual interest in munitions makers, decided to collaborate. Each had already written one book: Engelbrecht, a study of Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Hanighen, a biography of Santa Anna. Roving Newshawk George Seldes, brother to Litterateur Gilbert Seldes, has taken the lid off many a pot of trouble, stirred it with journalistic zeal. Onetime reporter on the Chicago Tribune, he has dabbled in Art, is now a freelance, has written four books (You Can't Print That!, Can These Things...
Back in Washington as an editor, Newshawk Sinnott did not hesitate last week to tell General Johnson: "I was just a bit shocked to get the impression that you feel the Press has not given you a square deal...
...stronghold on the Rio Coco last week, killed eight Sandinistas, captured six and a quantity of precious ammunition. Meanwhile a Col. Camilo Gonzalez, formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...
...really unbalanced. In a formal report to the Board of Education he declared that there were "no teachers in the system who are 'insane' in the sense in which the layman understands this word." In fact, said he, the whole rumpus was the fault of a bungling newshawk who thought he meant maniacs when he said some teachers were manic-depressives. And he had not said that a teacher twisted a chair-leg in a boy's eye. She had merely twisted it near...