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...Herelle's resignation made no headlines, but in New York a development in his specialty did. Tucked away in the New York Aquarium's annual report a Sun newshawk had discovered this modest paragraph...
...Eastern newsmen have known for two decades who Ed Hill is. So have readers of the New York Sim, for which Ed Hill was long an ace newshawk. But that was the horizon of his fame until two years ago when Radio discovered him, made him a "news commentator." Then. as in the case of Reporter Floyd Gibbons, Ed Hill became a Name (Edwin C. Hill to radio audiences). His deep timbred voice, easy delivery, intelligent interpretation of the day's news won him a tremendous following. His sentimentality was sufficient to endear him to the radio masses...
...same year Arthur Stimson Draper was graduated from New York University, where he had been campus correspondent for the New York Tribune. Mr. Draper put aside his engineer's degree, went downtown and to work as a Tribune cub. For the next 28 years Editor Woods and Newshawk Draper served their respective publications. Last week Editor Woods, 60, erudite, kindly, somewhat deaf, resigned from the Literary Digest, planned to travel, write books; and Arthur Draper, 50, quit his job as assistant editor of the Herald Tribune to take Editor Woods's place...
Every energetic newshawk has pipelines of information which flow only so long as they remain hidden. A brave newshawk would sooner go to jail-and sometimes he does-than violate journalism's law: Never expose your pipelines. Last week the Governor of New Jersey signed a bill giving the Press the same right of protecting confidences that is enjoyed by the medical and legal professions. It provides that the newsman need not make known to any county grand jury, legislative committee or other investigating body the source of information obtained by him and published in his paper. A similar...
...City Star, $500 for a series ''on national and international subjects ... an editorial educa- tional campaign which exerted wide influence in the Mississippi Valley." Best Reporting-to Francis A. Jamieson. New Jersey correspondent of The Associated Press, $1,000 for able coverage of the Lindbergh kidnapping story. Newshawk Jamieson was closely acquainted with New Jersey's Governor Arthur Harry Moore, an advantage which he wisely pressed and which led to his getting a half-hour "beat" on the story's climax- the discovery of Baby Lindbergh's body. Best Cartoon-to Harold Morton Talburt...