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...obituary in type, in 16 black-bordered columns. It told the familiar story of the poor boy, born in Cincinnati to cultured German parents who took him to Knoxville, Tenn. where, at eleven, he began delivering papers; how he became printer's devil and learned the pressman's trade. It recalled his dogged determination and the editorial shrewdness by which he made the Chattanooga Times a thriving. potent newspaper. Then came the day in 1896 when Adolph Ochs, 38. heard of a chance to acquire the New York Times. To a publisher friend he confided...
...worse. Mrs. Cromwell turned the conversation to the Mahatma's campaign against Untouchability, which she said impressed her. Suddenly a messenger burst in to say that the leaderless conference was becoming unruly. Gandhi excused himself. Doris Duke Cromwell & husband started for Bombay to resume their honeymoon. A United Pressman quoted her as saying: "I felt, in meeting this world-famous advocate of peace and nonviolence, that I had talked to a Messiah, comparable to Confucius, Buddha, Christ or Mohammed. There seemed an amazing paradox in this Hindu Messiah's opposition to what he felt to be the oppression...
...from the correspondents' dinner. Between broadcasts Mrs. Harold Keller, wife of the New York American correspondent, skipped rope. Mrs. Charles Poletti, wife of the Governor's counsel, won a set of towels by finding more peanuts (39) than anyone else. Mrs. Glenn Green, wife of a United Pressman, pinned a tail closest to the rump of a Democratic donkey, gloated: "That's female United Press accuracy...
Last week, the secret being officially out, most correspondents still kept mum. Daring, an Associated Pressman cabled that he had just ventured to drive rapidly past Berlin's secret air bases "without stopping," adding: "Barbed wire encloses them. Each is screened off by old forest growth or newly planted trees which will soon shut off the view. . . . The first and nearest to Berlin is that at Kladow. . . . The fact that several months of excavation preceded the above-ground work at Kladow seems to indicate the presence of subterranean networks [of aircraft storage space]. . . . The Kladow project covers perhaps four...
...Peek's sort, not a man of Mr. Frank's. Economically he stood somewhat closer to Jerome Frank, but he was a middle-of-the-roader in economics and in disposition. In AAA's legal department Frank and his satellites, including Francis Shea, Lee Pressman, Victor Rotnem, flashed their rapiers, determined to slice the profits off processors and middlemen and present them to the farmers. In AAA's Information Division, Consumers' Counsel Frederick C. Howe and Gardner Jackson slashed about them in the name of the consumer. Slow and steady Mr. Davis...