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...Mexico-Tomas Zafiro and Leonicio San Miguel, Tarahumara Indians-ran 62½ miles (100 kilometres) in 9 hrs. 37 min. Mexican sportsmen asked to have the record accepted as official, petitioned for a 100-kilometre race in the next Olympic games. Newspapermen sought out Zafiro and San Miguel. "We are strong," they replied, "because we live in the open air. We wear, in daylight, cloths around our privities; at night we cover ourselves with the skins of beasts. We eat, four times a day, frijoles1 and chili with tortillas.2 Also we like deer meat, chickens, turtles, lizards and rabbits...
...Newspapermen, appraising the damage later, put it at $5,000,000. Only five bedraggled trees were left standing in the Prado. Half the windows in the city were broken; many roofs blown away; several ships sunk in the harbor. The horses at the track-had run off through the ruins of their stables. The windows of the Havana Automobile Co. and the Ford Motor Branch were blown in. Camp Columbia had vanished. Ambulance surgeons began making up a death list;* truly the hurricane, blowing cone-shaped out of the West Indies, had done its work. And in the middle...
...part of the business of Ivy L. Lee, famed and unique adviser on public relations to many great corporations, to tell newspapermen what he wants them to know when he wants them to know it. Naturally, this sometimes conflicts in time and circumstance with professional curiosity and rivalries of some newspapermen. The incident culled by TIME from the Mercury was intended to illustrate a phase of this natural conflict. But, "do not trust" was decidedly the wrong phrase for the situation...
...Manhattan are "public relations counsel."* The principal business of Mr. Lee is to present to newspapers "statements" containing just those activities his clients desire to place before the public. The following anecdote related last week by the October issue of the American Mercury served to illustrate why some newspapermen do not like, do not trust...
...only last January I filed a suit demanding an accounting from her. And now my father, J. Homer Reilly, has also filed a suit asking for one-half of all the earnings I made while on the screen. I gave out no statement of the amount involved, but newspapermen last week placed it around...