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...Heaven informed of the feelings of the President of the U. S. C. Major social event of the Presidential week was the Gridiron Club Banquet, at which the President's remarks are, by strict rule, completely off the record. Sharpest of the six skits written by Washington newspapermen concerned Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the Supreme Court who, unlike Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Associate Justices James C. McReynolds and Harlan Fiske Stone, did not attend. Excerpt...
...bigtime tracks but for the half-mile county fair circuit in Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois which horsemen know as the Frying Pan or Leaky Roof circuit. In 20 years he has acquired a vast acquaintance with this circuit's "bush-riders," carnival people, horse breeders, newspapermen, and with the character of each small-town track. Both Lee Townsend's friends and Manhattan critics last week found the new paintings he had made out of this material well above the run of present-day sporting pictures. Highlights...
Once publisher of the newspaper trade journal Fourth Estate, organizer and first president of Columbia Broadcasting System, 51-year-old Harry Newman is best known to newspapermen as the clever promotion expert who undertook in 1927 to make America reindeer-meat conscious, so that rich Arthur & Leonard Baldwin could realize profits on their $6,000,000 reindeer business in Alaska. Mr. Newman sold many a leading newspaper his Christmas circulation promotion stunt which had as its climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen...
...Journalism. With the new Graduate School of Public Administration now well underway, many persons see no reason why a similar set-up cannot be fabricated for journalism. The curriculum might be decided upon and courses planned in the same way innovated by the Littauer School, namely, by conference with newspapermen and authorities who know the needs of their particular field...
...August 1936, six New York Times editorial men, headed by grave 42-year-old Oliver Franklin Holden, assistant make-up editor, decided that "in this era of turmoil" newspapermen needed organization but along totally different lines from the bread-&-butter aggressiveness of the American Newspaper Guild. The six drew in their friends, organized the American Press Society, "free to foster the economic welfare of its members by methods which would not tend to reduce newspaper salaries to minimum standards or lead to strikes or other coercive and violent measures tending to impair the reputation and dignity of journalism...