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...imagine why you should want to interview me!" Thus last week petite, blonde Paulina Semionova Molotova, wife of the Soviet Premier, greeted a newshawk who had tracked her to her new post as director of the Soviet Powder, Perfume, Rouge & Lipstick Trust (called "Tezhe" for short...
When a British newshawk brought up the question of War Debts and declared that the new Ambassador was considered "a messenger of hope" to negotiate their revision, Mr. Mellon, rather nettled, replied: "I don't consider myself so. Who invented the story? I have no special instructions to deal with financial questions...
Stout, bald, genial Newshawk Lewis is known throughout Berkshire Country. He keeps no working hours, wants no diversion other than traveling about, gathering homely little items for his paper, chatting about his favorite oldtime news stories. Unmarried, Reporter Lewis lives alone in a lodging house. That, says he, is how he amassed $20,000: "I'm thrifty, and you can live in Lenox for $4 a week...
...night last week harassed Newfoundland Premier Sir Richard Anderson Squires sat up to wee hours bickering and dickering with representatives of a syndicate of four Canadian banks. Was it a sale? Next day in Montreal, Canada, where most of Newfoundland's fiscal news breaks first, eager newshawks pounced on Sir Percy Thompson, deputy chairman of the British Board of Inland Revenue recently "loaned" to Newfoundland. Waving away all question of the sale or lease of Labrador, Sir Percy announced that a loan (he would not say how much) had been extended to Newfoundland by the four Canadian banks: Royal...
Into the elephant house of the Bronx-Zoo one day last week wandered a newshawk of the New York Sun. He buttonholed Keeper Walter Thuman. Said the newsman to Zooman Thuman: "What most annoys you here?'' Zooman Thuman to the newsman: "Balls are what I fear." Mourned Keeper Thuman: "Footballs, baseballs, tennis balls, golf balls, ping-pong balls, billiard balls, marbles-they're all bad for elephants. But the worst are those ordinary rubber balls that children bounce. They bounce them near the cages. The elephants gulp them down. Then they get sick." A hard rubber ball...