Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form and requires a subject rather out of the ordinary. It rolls along in voluminous strides, and I was at my wit's end for something to write about. It seems to me that it was in February while reading your magazine that I chanced upon a little paragraph telling about an elephant's stampede in India. Here I thought was the longed for material for my verse, so I wrote up the incident in the required ponderous style and sent it in. TIME proved to be my lifesaver, at any rate it seemed to please the Professor...
...recall the paragraph to you I will enclose the poem. M. ELIZABETH DEMARY...
...Sulzberger his chief is "the perfect newspaperman." "He is simple and direct, and able to strip the most difficult problem of its complexities and put his finger on the underlying and motivating facts-the news angle becomes apparent his touch. ... His greatest delight is to find an insignificant paragraph which under his prodding develops into a first-page story the following...
EDITORS who feel they must have some artistic liberty in typography, will be permitted to use "all caps" in the first word of any story, as in this paragraph...
...pistol against his breast, killed himself. His lawyer & friends gave as the reason his grief at having to relinquish "his old interests." Then was it the duty of newspapers to report on the life of Gossipist Harden a report which read much like an oldtime Harden-published gossip paragraph-married first Maude Sullivan, Chicago artists' model; won $10,000 for alienation of affections from his friend, William T. Hoops, who later wed Maude Sullivan Harden; married (second) Mabel Doris Mercer, chorus girl, who divorced him and later married (and was divorced from) Sebastian Spering Kresge. cheap-store tycoon; married...