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Newsboys are also newspapermen, and a true old timer is San Antonio's Horace Greeley J. Heckman, a stoop-shouldered, loose-jointed, slap-happy gaffer of 64, who has been selling the Light on the corner of Travis and North St. Mary's Streets for the past 17 years. Newsboy Heckman says he is an M.A. (for Master Accountant), has worked in eight banks and sold newspapers in New York, California, Mexico, South America and at the Paris Exposition of 1900. He wears an old straw hat and baggy breeches, drinks "sulfur water" out of a whiskey bottle...
Back of this curt announcement last week was a story that had kept Syracuse newspapermen in the jitters for months. Liquidating wherever they could, the tough businessmen who run the Hearst empire had let it be known that the profitable Journal and American could be bought. Six weeks ago Harvey Burrill's son, Louis, who succeeded him as publisher, could have had it for $750,000. While he dickered, a stranger went to Syracuse...
Arrow, published by an anonymous group of journalists of whom the leader is grey-haired, pink-faced Fred Voigt, one of the ablest newspapermen in England and a close friend of Sir Robert Vansittart, famed Foreign Office careerist. Printed on a hand press in an Old Gloucester Street basement, Arrow comes out on Friday, helps to fill the weekend gap in British news. Its policy: ''England must be strong...
...feast was given by Gen. Chi Hsieh-yuan last evening at Huai Jen Tang in honor of over 80 Chinese and Japanese newspapermen. Many high class Japanese officers were also invited. Purpose of the feast is: the Provisional Government is going to have an army of 'its own,' so he wants the newsmen to give them encouragement and publicity. The program of feast is like this...
...neutrality. The questions asked him were terse and sober; his replies were concise. Not a word did Franklin Roosevelt say to Fred Storm, one of his favorite correspondents, about his leaving U. P. to work for Sam Goldwyn and Jimmy Roosevelt in Hollywood. When the conference was over the newspapermen filed out as quietly as they had entered, and everybody knew that, for a time at least, a new atmosphere existed between the President and the Press...