Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearst Executive Walter Howey, the model for Managing Editor Walter Burns in The Front Page, was only a City Press cub on a routine assignment in 1903 when a blackened figure in stage costume suddenly popped out of a nearby manhole and gasped a few frenzied words. Minutes later, City Press had the first flash on Howey's beat-'the great Iroquois Theater fire, in which about 600 died. Hildy Johnson, the star reporter of the Chicago Herald-Examiner and The Front Page, scored a string of courtroom beats as a City Press legman by holding a stethoscope...
Scoops & Stethoscopes. Though Chicagoans read its stories every day, few have ever heard of professionally anonymous City Press. Reason: it is a kind of trade secret of the loudly competitive newspapers, which share its cost and its news. But City Press is probably the most successful school of practical journalism in the U.S., and its alumni are as well-known as the academy is obscure...
...rowdy days, some of the reporters carried pistols, and now & then a celebrating staffer took a shot at. the city-room clock; General Manager and Managing Editor Isaac Gershman put down the practice when a wild bullet holed his vest as he sat at his desk. Nowadays, a City Press reporter's life is less temerarious; though a juicy murder or a big fire still comes along to relieve the routine, it is mostly a hard-working job of covering the unexciting but important little stories that fill out the chronicle of the day. But Editor Gershman...
Pinpoints & Planning. A harassed, high-strung veteran of 34 years at City Press, "Gersh" starts his $3O-a-week cubs as "ink monkeys" in the back room, running the duplicating machine. Gradually he teams them up with reporters covering police beats, courts, hospitals and public buildings, finally puts them on their own. From Gersh and City Editor Larry Mulay young reporters learn to turn out a story that is fast, straight and complete...
...fraternity house sometimes uses a double-doorbell system. Invited guests press the concealed one; the uninvited set off an alarm signal when they push the other. Another clubhouse is wired with trip cords; if an intruder steps on one, all the lights in the house go out. Still another keeps one brother bartending in the basement. In case of an inspection, the bartender is supposed to sweep his bottles into a suitcase and exit by a back door...