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Editor Renaud is small, grey, round-faced, with horn-rimmed spectacles. On the old World he made a good record as a newshawk. He is aloof, diffident, rarely mixes with his staff except to show them a watercolor he has painted, a poem or play he has dashed...
...Herbert Hoover emerged from the West to go to Chicago's Fair. Near Gibbon, Neb., when a freight wreck stalled their train for almost half a day, Mr. Hoover played solitaire in his shirt sleeves. To a newshawk who boarded the train he said: "I'm sorry but I'm not discussing national issues," quizzed the newshawk instead about Nebraska farmers. At the depot in Chicago a crowd of 500 peered and cheered as Mr. Hoover stepped under the glare of camera flashlights. "I'm just a common garden variety of American citizen come...
Bearded, apple-cheeked old Frank Brangwyn of Ditchling in Sussex is Britain's Grand Old Man of Mural Painting. When he told a newshawk last winter that he had had trouble finding a model for a picture of Eve he was painting, a story blathered across Britain's front pages that Brangwyn had called British women hipless. The streets of Ditchling filled at once with outsize women come to show Brangwyn British hips. Last week Painter Brangwyn, 65, and ill but still full of emphasis, was finishing the fourth of four murals for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center...
...Untermyer scoffed: "This is just a play to the galleries." Said Mayor O'Brien to a newshawk as he hurried out after listening meekly in the background: "My dear boy, I've got a great big hole down here [patting his paunch]. I've got to hurry along and get some lunch...
Late one afternoon last week Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly started to leave his spacious fifth-floor office at City for home when a newshawk from William Randolph Hearst's Herald & Examiner stepped up to him. "You want to see me?" asked Mayor Kelly. "Yes," replied the Hearstling. "Questions?" "Yes" Mayor Kelly turned on his heel, strode back into his office, shot over his shoulder: "There's no use your waiting around." The reporter departed. Next morning the Herex blazoned this headline across its front page...