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...Francisco Examiner's officials, shrinking from the public reaction against a good stunt gone sour, denied any actual prepayment to the diver, disavowed sponsorship of his plunge. Other newspapermen sympathized, because they knew who it was that had jumped, and why. He was Ray Wood, a professional diver from high bridges who had plunged safely from the 110-ft. Merchant's Bridge in St. Louis, twice from Steve Brodie's 165-ft. Brooklyn Bridge,* once from a 170-ft. Aurora Bridge over Lake Union at Seattle. Going off the 185-ft. San Francisco-Oakland Bridge was Wood...
...astonished when the paper suddenly and with no explanation dropped the famed Conning Tower column of Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."). Mr. Adams cheerfully explained in a characteristic sentence: "They just wanted me to work for less money, whereas I wanted to work for more." But New York newspapermen knew that the differenfce went deeper than dollars. Between stolid, self-conscious Mr. Reid and saturnine, self-satisfied Mr. Adams, for 16 years a quarrel had smoldered...
That night to newspapermen General Miaja emphasized the strength of Generalissimo Franco's resistance. Declared he: "You must remember that the Insurgents are not firing at us with candy drops...
...Hill deserted newspaper work to edit Fox news-reels, but the Sun wooed him back in 1927. In 1932 radio was looking for newspapermen who had firm, friendly voices in addition to rich experience in reporting, in travel, and in simplifying world events. They found Edwin C. Hill, whos sought no radio news scoops but brought to his audiences the "human side of the news." For along time his voice boomed out for Hearts's newsreel. Just as Hearst took his name from Hearst Metrotone news, Mr. Hill voluntarily left the employ of the Lord of San Simeon...
When Editor Brisbane began to make big money with the Hearstpapers, he started the large-scale real estate deals which made him unique among working newspapermen. In these operations Mr. Hearst was also soon involved. In 1926, Mr. Brisbane built the Ritz Tower apartment hotel, then the tallest (540 ft.) residential building in Manhattan, later selling it to his chief. Together they built the elaborate Ziegfeld Theatre, the Warwick Hotel across the street, took over other hotels, apartment buildings, beach properties. Mused William Randolph Hearst: "Arthur comes to me all the time with some wonderful plan to make money...