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...blond-mustached 23-year-old took over the Examiner on March 4, 1887. He subtitled his little sheet "Monarch of the Dailies," and set out, as one editor put it, "to arouse the 'gee whiz!' emotion." The Examiner's boss rushed special trains to cover out-of-town fires, ran up enormous cable tolls. He wrote boob-catching headlines like A SUNDAY SUICIDE OF A LOVESICK LOAFER. On the premise that "there is no substitute for circulation," he spent his father's money like a drunken prospector-then made it back, as circulation multiplied...
Last week out-of-town ragtime fans got a chance to hear a solid sample of Sutton's style...
...small-town publisher, untroubled by big-city needs for several editions, the system promises real speed and savings in production. He turns on his tape-receiving machine early in the morning, gets all the out-of-town shorts and headline news stories he can use during the seven-hour run. Under most setups, he can find out what he is getting on tape by reading a companion printer which types out stories in sentence form, then he can either chop the tape to edit his stories or edit them in type. By press time, his tape-fed typesetters have clanked...
...town clients such as the Astors, Harknesses and Phippses, he keeps a big antique-filled studio on Manhattan's upper West Side. Out-of-town customers are often entertained as guests, while he paints them, at his 23-room Georgian farmhouse near Franklin Lakes...
...swamps both of them in guilt. Neither has the strength to admit the guilt and ask Harold Johnston to agree to a divorce. When Johnston takes Elissa to live in California, Kempner settles down to live out a passive life checkered only by a few inconclusive out-of-town liaisons. Only old Mrs. Johnston ever knows his secret, and Author Beck scores a triumph in endowing her with understanding and intelligence at once Christian and credible...