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Will Lang spent many censored and newsless weeks with General Mark Clark's hidden Fifth Army in Africa waiting for it to jump off on the invasion. At the last minute he gave his place in the attack to Jack Belden-then rushed to the front with a reserve regiment after Belden was wounded during the first landings at Salerno...
June 24, 1942 was a hot, dull, newsless day at San Francisco police headquarters. The reporters were: bored, thirsty, broke. Then one had an idea: "Let's throw a party. This is Booker T. Washington Day." There really is no such thing, but the energized reporters called every politician they knew, gravely informed them that Booker T. Washington Day was passing uncelebrated. (They explained to doubters that Booker T. was the "founder of the American Newspaper Guild.") By mid-afternoon 64 quarts of assorted liquor, one case of champagne, scores of politicos, plain-clothes men and plain people...
...businesses few are more routine, none more newsless than insurance. Last week contrary to custom insurance made much news...
But?National Committeeman Creager issued from the White House last week very calm and newsless. "All this furor about what the President meant," he said, "is in the minds of the people generally. But those who know Mr. Coolidge know what he meant . . . that if he can have his way about it he will not be a candidate...
When people speak of the other Senator from New York, they are usually referring to a doctor with a flower in his buttonhole, Royal S. Copeland, writer of syndicated articles on health published on the newsless pages of newspapers. Among other things, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a trustee of Syracuse University, a teetotaler. Last week he announced: "I am ready to burn all my bridges behind me in order to carry out the will of the people of this State" for a modification of the Volstead Act. Said he: "I do not think that...