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...Designer of the Blue Eagle was Charles T. Coiner, Philadelphia artist. Its originator is supposed to have been Frank Wilson, onetime Sioux City newshawk, Liberty Loan propagandist and now a chicken-raiser at Pawling...
...that address a Star newshawk found a crowd standing outside the Coffee Mug restaurant run by one Max Komen who served 5? breakfasts, 15? lunches. In the centre of the crowd stood a 200-lb, jobless cook named Robert Wright. Yelled Cook Wright: "I asked that - - - -* Komen where his Blue Eagle was. He said 'To hell with the Blue Eagle.' Come out here on the street, Komen, and get what's comin...
...Then I sit down and think things over and spend the rest of the day laughing and laughing and laughing." Up to him stepped a bibulous Bohemian stared in his face, remarked: "Did anyone ever tell you how much you look like that awful guy, Hoover?" To a Manhattan newshawk Actress Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, relict of Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett (TIME, June 1), exclaimed: "Did you ever think about gland conditioning? And how soon it may be within our power to choose our character as we choose our clothes? Of course, its depressing to think that we women may choose...
Administrator Johnson flew back to Cleveland, stopped there for some lamb chops and beer. Asked a newshawk: "What will happen to objectors who won't go along with this new code?" Wiping suds from his lips. General Johnson snapped: "They'll get a sock right on the nose...
Like all good publicity men, Ivy Lee was once a newshawk. Son of a Methodist minister in Georgia, he came out of Princeton in 1898, broke in as a cub on Hearst's New York Journal, went to the Times and the World. A friendly lawyer hired him to publicize a local political campaign...