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...Author's insatiable and restless curiosity has led him into many queer places and situations in his 47 years; his unabashed frankness in reporting his unusual adventures has paid him good dividends. Son of a Lutheran minister in Maryland, he was a newshawk on the Augusta, Ga. Chronicle, then worked his way for nine months at the University of Geneva, returned to the U. S. to go into advertising. Private in the French Army during the War, he was gassed at Verdun. After the War he started writing in Manhattan. One evening in 1924 he met an Arab, shortly...
...heighten the effect he tried to deny himself on the day of the performance to the world's sharpest newshawks-the cameramen of New York Harbor-by shutting himself up in his suite on the world-cruising Empress of Britain. After registering becoming reluctance he emerged at last, only to lose composure when one of the hawks shouted the old cry, "Tell the old fool to turn around!" Shaw, outraged, seized the cameraman and shook him by the shoulders. Meantime other cameras clickety-clicked, including that of the smart Daily News (tabloid) man who had perched above...
...charge of raping two white girls (TIME, April 17 et ante): indefinite postponement of the trial of the other six defendants; in Decatur, Ala. Grounds: alleged insults to Alabamans by Chief Defense Counsel Samuel S. Leibowitz, creating "sentiment that might not allow a fair trial." Interviewed by a northern newshawk about the Alabama jurors. Leibowitz was quoted as saying, "If you ever saw those creatures; those bigots, whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes pop out at you like frogs, whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy, you would not ask how they could...
...Treasury at a moment of greatest national emergency, they found small William Hartman Woodin, his eyes as blue as his shirt and collar, his cupid mouth pursed in an easy little smile, sitting informally on the edge of his desk, swinging his legs. Piped a pert newshawk: "Mr. Secretary, you're in a pretty hot spot, aren't you?" The brand-new Secretary reached down to his big black leather chair, rubbed his hand slowly over its seat and softly replied: "No, it isn't hot. really...
...Author. Joel Sayre, 33, born a Hoosier, was brought up in Columbus, Ohio. During the War he served "briefly" with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in Siberia; after the Armistice continued his education at Williams, Toronto, Oxford, Heidelberg, Marburg, Bliss Business College. Off & on a newshawk for ten years (on the Ohio State Journal, New York Telegram, New York Daily News, New York Herald-Tribune), he tried his hand unsuccessfully at writing advertising copy, teaching school, studying medicine. Rackety Rax's success gave him a better idea...