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...Times to tackle, nothing too high It financed Peary to the North Pole, is backing Byrd at the South Pole. Covering a suburban murder trial, it leased an entire house to take care of its correspondents, their machines and helpers. Automobiles, trains, airplanes, ships- whatever a Times newshawk needs he gets...
...next two spurts to Curtis Dwight. In 1919 he ascended to California's Supreme Bench. In 1922 he became Chief Justice. Then, after the Denby trouble, when President Coolidge was at a loss for a man to put in as Secretary of the Navy, a state-loyal California newshawk sent in the name of Curtis Dwight Wilbur?"Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California." On paper it looked magnificent, and Calvin Coolidge had not then been President long enough to know how magnificent paper can make some things and people look...
GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS-A play about a newshawk who tried being a public relations counsel-written with grace and truth by newshawks who know their racket (TIME, Sept...
...begins when Wick Snell, a laconic newshawk, leaves his job to become a press agent. The next act discovers Public...
...kinds of men whose influence counted. Men had called him another Cincinnatus. He let his friends play up the farm idea and prepared to be called from the plow. . . . But he answered curtly the reporters who questioned him. Once, at the Kansas City railroad station, he gave a Hearst newshawk an ungentle shove and said: "You newspaper men will get along better with me if you wait until I have something...