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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although not available last year, Senior Bill Towner is likely to see plenty of active service before long in a midfield post. An experienced and reliable defense is Ralph Livingston '39, a letterman both his Sophomore and Junior years. A sure bulwark is Al Blanchard '39, who has shown great possibilities in the midfield. Another midfield position is being contested for by veteran Jim Sullivan, the remaining Senior...
High priestess of the Set was supposed to be Virginia-born Lady Astor, nee Nancy Langhorne, the mistress of Cliveden and M. P. for Plymouth. Last week in Saturday Evening Post "Priestess" Nancy indignantly denounced all Cliveden Set stories. Lord & Lady Astor put in their first disclaimers last spring; he to the London Times, she to the Daily Herald. Now she gives full tongue. "Cliveden Set! There is no such thing! It is a fantastic invention. It has no existence. It never did exist." After that heated beginning Cliveden's mistress proceeded sarcastically to list those who really were...
...rapid succession Executive Bitner and Hearst himself junked papers in Rochester and Omaha, leased the Washington Times to Cissie Patterson (who bought both Times and Herald outright this year), sold Hearst's half-interest in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, combined the staffs of morning and evening papers in Milwaukee, folded Universal Service into International News, tabbed the Boston American. This plugged a drainage of nearly $5,000,000 a year. Executives White and Hearst Jr. began liquidating the Hearst art treasures. Executive Connolly got rid of seven radio stations for $1,215,000. Executive Huberth told Hearst real-estate...
Hearst has one close-knit group of generally profitable newspapers: the six on the Pacific Coast. The Los Angeles Herald & Express makes $1,000,000 a year, the Examiner $500.000. The San Francisco Examiner is another $1,000,000 paper. The Call-Bulletin and Oakland's Post-Enquirer earn far less, but stand to get a boost from the fair this year. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, once the weak sister of the Coast, has been pulling out of the red under Roosevelt Son-in-Law John Boettiger, will make enough in 1939 to offset 1938's losses. These...
These papers are worries: the N. Y. Journal-American, Boston American,^ Baltimore News-Post (Sunday American), Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph...