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...lived in the foothills of the Alleghenies and there I learned to love flowers and trees," is the way he generally begins his own biography. When he was 16 he left Pennsylvania for Chicago where he worked his way through the University of Chicago, got a job as a newshawk on the Daily News. He quit the Daily News to return to the University for a law course, came out and set up a small practice in the Loop. His onetime partner was Donald Randall Richberg, longtime attorney for railroad labor and now counsel to General Hugh Johnson...
Died. Benjamin Baker, 61, oldtime newshawk, economist, editor of The Annalist (financial weekly) since 1925; of a heart attack; in Hartsdale. N. Y. His predictions of the 1929 crash fell on deaf ears...
...prison at Wallkill, which convicts call ''The Country Club." His application was denied because authorities feared his onetime depositors might protest. ∙ While fire swept through the second & third floors of his home near Baltimore. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald stopped rescuing furniture long enough to answer a newshawk's telephone call. Said he: "Won't you please excuse me? The house is still burning and I'm standing in three feet of water...
...uncertainly over this third most important diplomatic appointment. He had chosen a quiet, scholarly North Carolina Protestant who could be counted on to keep his head amid Germany's racial uproar. The day of his appointment Dr. Dodd was digging in his Chicago flower garden when a newshawk asked him: "You talk German fluently?" "Yes," chuckled the professor, "that's what has got me into this trouble...
...more diligently than white-fringed "Jim" Barrett, whom Hearst got when the New York World expired. Editor Barrett sent Reporter Allen Norton, an old World man, to prowl about the Sherwood apartment in Brooklyn, whither Mrs. Sherwood had long ago returned without her husband. Mrs. Sherwood had moved away. Newshawk Norton dug up a neighbor who happened to remember the name on the moving van which carted the Sherwood furniture. The moving company was persuaded to open its books, and there was the new address, in East Orange, N. J. under the name of Fuller, a Sherwood brother...