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...MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO I FEEL YOUR MAGAZINE HAS DONE AN INJUSTICE TO ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPERMEN OF THE WEST, PAUL SMITH, EDITOR OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, IN YOUR JULY 29 ISSUE. YOU REFER TO HIM AS A "BUMPTIOUS YOUNG EDITOR." WE OF SAN FRANCISCO AGREE THAT HE IS YOUNG BUT DISAGREE THAT HE IS BUMPTIOUS...
...Bumptious also (and proud of it) were the famed San Francisco editors (from James King and Charles Webb of frontier days to the late Fremont Older) who created a Great Tradition of aggressive, independent, politically active newspapermen...
...sincerity, why you have refrained from making known your position on the Third Term issue." Correspondent Browne had written and rewritten his question so that it would not provoke a wisecracking answer; had memorized it so that he would not fumble the asking. Replied the President: let the newspapermen listen to the Convention broadcast; they would hear Senator Barkley make an announcement for the President when the Convention's permanent organization was completed. He broke into loud laughter as they rushed off with the sensational news that the secret...
...before he went to Eton, Leopold demanded and for six months was allowed to serve in his father's trenches as a private soldier. After Eton, he was tutored for four years along special lines mapped by his father, emphasizing economics. Also, travel. Oldtime U. S. newspapermen remember the democratic young prince (no great contrast, except among gay ladies, to Britain's then Prince of Wales) who accompanied King Albert through the U. S. in 1919, playing poker with them, driving the locomotive. With his father he visited Brazil and Egypt. He went alone to the Belgian Congo...
...Felix's proudest possession is The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin Roosevelt, personally presented by President Roosevelt last autumn. Luxembourg's canny, genial Foreign Minister Joseph Bech (who resigned as Premier because he thought he had held the job too long), likes to swap stories with newspapermen. The newspapermen like to hang out in chess-playing Herr Klopp's hotel at Remich and watch the Germans across the river...