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...fall a 30-year-old ex-newspaperman who also hung out in Walgreen's decided that these kids needed a "press" behind them. On a bank roll of $8, Leo Shull created it. In a rickety-rackety "office" where day beds jostled typewriters he started a daily mimeographed newssheet called Actors Cues. First issues rounded up every available scrap of casting news. Soon Editor Shull added a personals column, reprinted the critics' reviews, insulted the critics, lambasted snotty producers, tossed in editorials, wisecracks, rumors...
Last fortnight, after the Wildcats lost their first two games (to Oklahoma and Ohio State), an editorial in the student newssheet, Daily Northwestern, charged that the linemen were refusing to block for their ballyhooed star, Sophomore Bill De Correvont. Angered, the Wildcats promptly beat Wisconsin 13-to-7, and last week swamped Illinois 13-to-0, even though De Correvont failed to get going...
Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, famed "Black Eagle of Harlem," who drilled Ethiopian youngsters with wooden guns during the Italo-Ethiopian War, arrived in Paris to make a "comprehensive study of the international situation" as a war reporter for the Harlem newssheet, the Amsterdam News. "I am," said he, "ready to offer my services to France...
...gossip has so rankled ruling British Conservatives as that told about the Cliveden Set (pronounced kliv-den). First to "discover" the Set was The Week, mimeographed newssheet edited by tall, lean Claude Cockburn (pronounced ko-burn), former U. S. correspondent of the London Times, at present a writer for London's Communist Daily Worker...
...prove he has a sense of humor, Minister Goebbels' newssheet, Der Angriff, thereupon began a joke contest. First prize...