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Well known to hundreds of newspapermen were all the members of that party. Bradish Johnson, the dead chocolate-passer, was a 26-year-old Manhattan socialite who had spent much of his life in Paris, was taking photographs and sending articles from Spain to Newsweek and The Spur. The other fatality was Ernest Richard Sheepshanks of the British Reuters News Service. A superior young British bachelor, he was once captain of the Eton cricket eleven, followed the armies of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, and won the awed admiration of Italian aviators in Salamanca by dressing...
Financially the Eagle took the most terrible beating. The Guild's most effective strike activity was a campaign to cut Eagle advertising, conducted with all the originality the newspapermen could give it. Pickets in full dress stalked before Manhattan theatres advertising in the Eagle, a hairy "gorilla" picketed a beauty shop until its distressed owner got an injunction against such tactics. Picketing of Brooklyn and Manhattan stores, plus a "consumers campaign" against national advertisers, undoubtedly cost the Eagle most of the 184,000 lines of advertising it dropped in the past three weeks...
Last week, as advertised, the Providence Star-Tribune came up for sale. Providence newspapermen expected it to go to Julius David Stern, publisher of the New York Post and Philadelphia Record who was interested in the Star-Tribune because he had once been general manager of its forerunner, the Providence News...
...Director Alsberg started his big job by picking State directors throughout the U. S., soon had a Writers' Project office in every city of 10,000, at least one writer or field worker in each of the U. S.'s 3,000 counties. State directors included 16 newspapermen and women, seven novelists, nine college professors and instructors, three historians, a poet, a bookseller, a dramatist...
...temporary offices were established. Although administrative work was handled by professionals like Alsberg's assistant, Reed Harris, or his chief editor, Biographer Edward Barrows (Great Commodore), or Architect Roderick Seidenberg, who designed The New Yorker Hotel, the detail work was done by a mazy mass of unemployed newspapermen, poets, graduates of schools of journalism who had never had jobs, authors of unpublished novels, high-school teachers, people who had always wanted to write, a sprinkling of first-rate professional writers who were down on their luck...