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...News obliged. True to the newsman's oft-violated creed that newspapermen do not make news, tall, mustached (and sometimes bearded) Lowell Limpus did not mention in his obit many of his best works, such as his 1932 series on Al Capone's flossy life in the Atlanta Penitentiary. Of Limpus, Limpus wrote...
...least conspicuous burdens was and is being carried on by the public information section, under the direction of John White. Ever since the evening of October 4, the Smithsonian and photographers, and the telephone wires have been jammed by requests for office has been filled with newspapermen information by the general public...
McNulty, himself an ex-altar boy (at St. Mary's, Lawrence, Mass.) fell into no better company than his own. He was a man much loved by newspapermen, horse-players, bartenders, dogs, writers, children and other odd characters who knew him. He had the weaknesses of his subject matter, but like the work of his own "sour-beer artist" (see glossary) his apparently sloppy words came out in (crystal. Unfortunately, the total recall of irrelevant detail which is wonderful in the saloon anecdotes is a bit of a bore in McNulty's journalistic pieces. Irish writers like McNulty...
...Among its newspapermen's newspapermen: Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Nunnally Johnson, Franklin P. Adams, J. P. Marquand, Don Marquis, John O'Hara...
...biggest industrial firm on the Continent, with 82,500 workers. During the war Krupp built the Big Bertha, the 42-centimeter mortar that smashed the Liège forts and cleared the way for the German advance into Belgium and France. Its name was also applied later by newspapermen to the German gun that shelled Paris from 75 miles away...