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While Boston newspapermen and photographers watched train, bus, and plane terminals one rainy Monday morning early this month, Fornier--Chanceller Heinrich Bruening of Germany slipped quietly into his Lowell House apartment...
...editorial members upheld affiliation with C. I. O. 3,392-to-1,691. Further, the membership endorsed (2,774-to-2,202) the resolution urging independent political action with other labor groups when this seems desirable, called (2,815-to-2,178) for increased WPA appropriations to keep needy newspapermen employed, supported (2,685-to-2,271) President Roosevelt's plan for revising the Supreme Court. Only convention action rejected by the membership was a resolution to the effect "That Fascism must be defeated in Spain to halt the anti-labor forces...
Meanwhile, in Spain the international civil war had been going on so long (nearly 14 months) that the 400-odd newspapermen covering it were footsore, seat-sore and weary. The novelty had worn off. The twin bogies of communication and censorship had cut down the number of scoops. With professional envy the correspondents in Spain were eying China, where their colleagues were stealing the headlines. But Spain from the press standpoint presented a far more significant job, for in Spain, the press was tackling the day-in, day-out job of covering a modern...
...newspaper reporters, do only the simpler forms of ghost writing: goodwill speeches, letters-to-the-editor, sales letters, etc. Other work they farm out on a fee basis to 200 writers on their list. Forty of these are professors at Columbia, Fordham, New York University. The rest are working newspapermen and assorted specialists. Rates range from 1½? a word for routine editing to 8? a word for articles on technical subjects requiring considerable research. They handle about 20 jobs a week and expect to gross about $100,000 this year. Their largest...
...likes fishing, shooting ducks at his camp in Magnetawan, Ont., discussing anything under the sun with his wife Mary, listening to prize fight broadcasts with his son-in-law, Professor Benjamin Meritt of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Kirkland crotchets include a dislike of bond salesmen and newspapermen, refusal to improve his ill-fitting false teeth, a fondness for maxims like: "I don't have time to make up anyone's mind...