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...Little Flower," or "The Roaring Bull of the Pampas" as he was also known, had no need of a publicity agent. He was the type of "happy thyroid" who always supplied newspapermen with reams of copy. Vag remembered pictures of him beaming at a picnic in the country, glowering over some knotty problems at a meeting of the City Council, or mopping the heat of a burning summer day from his plastic countenance. Then there was that tragi-comic look of hurt surprise as he struck back at the disappointed job-seeker who had assailed him on the steps...
...third year Harvard has selected its annual batch of fifteen Nieman Fellows, newspapermen from all over the country who will come to feast at its intellectual table. From the Martinis to the desert, the plan has in three years proved highly successful. Not only have many newspapermen been able to take back to their work a wider knowledge of the things they write about, but several have received better jobs as a result of their study. But aside from this, Harvard itself has learned, through these journalists' eyes, a lot about national problems that it either didn't know...
This book is essentially a study in the urban workings of democracy, and a sight more informative one than most sociologists would be apt to produce. Authors Thompson & Raymond are both able and knowledgeable newspapermen. Much of what they have to tell has been known to other such newspapermen for years, but it has been left to them to pull it together. One good reason for the delay is that, until Prosecutors Dewey and Cahill finally got the goods on Messrs. Jimmy Hines, Martin Manton et al., the anatomy of gang rule in New York City could not be fully...
Like most books by working newspapermen, this one is better in detail than in structure. Authors Thompson & Raymond never develop their reference to a fact which would seem highly relevant to the present hullabaloo in Brooklyn: "The reduction of Tammany to the status of a borough organization in Manhattan, the borough of diminishing population, and . . . the rise of other and stronger bosses in Brooklyn and The Bronx. . . ." Their mobsters generally remain two-dimensional. One who comes terribly to life, however, is slug-faced Arthur Flegenheimer, who as "Dutch Schultz" went from beer-running to the numbers racket...
Fifteen Nieman Fellowships were awarded to newspapermen last week for study at the University during the coming academic year, when they will be on leave of absence from their papers...