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...training rifles on the beasts, "this is the biggest moment of my life." The lions stood up, yawned, slunk out. Seven hounds cowered and whined. Off into the thick willows wandered the lions. Hunter Wright, gleeful, promised them a four-hour start, suggested lunch. At this point he found Newshawk Chesley busily taking photographs. Newshawk Goldstein complaining about the loss of his plates, threatening to break his rival's camera. "Please!'' begged Hunter Wright...
Back to Commerce raced the reporters with the story of the lions' release, for the early editions. Newshawk Chesley won. Then he slipped back to the island accompanied by a deputy sheriff, a Cape Girardeau reporter and a boatman named Walter Wise. They landed on the island out of sight of Wright's party. Newshawk Chesley wanted to take some more pictures of the lions before the hunt began...
Haled into a Los Angeles court to explain a debt of $292.10, huge Jess Willard, onetime heavyweight boxing champion, told a municipal referee that he was working for about $15 a week as a bouncer in a meat market he once owned. He had himself photographed ejecting a tiny newshawk. Later he confessed: "That's all a joke about my being a bouncer. There's nothing to bounce around here except pieces of meat. I'm manager here. . . . Can't tell you my salary but it's a lot more than $15 weekly. Why that...
Sternly questioned by a newshawk from Leningradskaya Pravda, State Farm Manager Youdine exclaimed two weeks after the disappearance : "Is it possible? I didn't know we had lost any cows...
...Goldsboro, one Gene Roberts, newshawk, promoted a Hoovercart Rodeo as a publicity stunt. Goldsboro entertained its biggest crowd since William Jennings Bryan spoke there 34 years ago. Some 400 Hoovercarts paraded through the town. Streets were jammed. Goldsboro's police and four State highway patrolmen could not untangle the traffic jam. Filling stations did their best day's business in many a month?selling hay. Angry politicians had newsreel photographers barred, pleaded with Newshawk Roberts to publicize the carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER...