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...foreign parts again. In the early '90s he went to Malaya to edit a paper, moved on to Japan to become European editor of Tokyo's Japan Times. In 1899, just after the beginning of Philippine-U.S. hostilities, Alfred arrived in Manila. Filipinos arrested the ambitious newshawk of 71 as a spy, left him bound and stripped in the jungle to be slowly devoured by flies. U.S. troops rescued him. Later he went to the U.S., worked on a San Francisco paper...
Enough was enough. The President at his next press conference took cognizance of the rumors. When Newshawk O'Donnell asked a question, the President snapped his head off with a brusque answer. Then Mr. Roosevelt turned to other stories about the misuse of Lend-Lease funds, labelled them as examples of the vicious rumors, distortion of facts, or just plain, dirty falsehoods, which he said were being circulated in an organized campaign to sabotage the program to defeat Hitlerism. The condemnation was one of the bitterest he had ever made-and one of the truest...
...staff of the Chicago Daily News took time out one night last week for an impressive collective binge to honor a newshawk come home to roost after 22 months on the battlefronts of World War II. Recipient of this kudos was red-faced, balding Robert Joseph Casey, quick of mind and ample of girth, who has been a fair-haired Newsboy since 1920. His standing on the News is such that when his boss, Colonel Frank Knox, congratulated him on a series about the war, he amiably remarked: "I'm glad you like them because they cost you about...
...Louis' life last week. Not only did his wife file suit for divorce, but he admitted the truth of rumors that he is likely to retire at the end of this year. "I ain't near the fighter I use to be," he told a newshawk after a round of golf at Detroit's Rackham golf course. "I guess I'se slipped pretty far. Won't know how far until my next fight with Lou Nova in September. If I find then I'se slipped too far, I'll give...
...thanks to a bright young Scot with a quick blue eye and a newshawk's nose that Britain went into World War II with a large and competent staff of trained documentary makers on hand, and a public which liked and respected their product...