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...psychiatrists, with yeoman help from the boys in the pressroom, explained George to Chicago by saying that Iris creator, Bill, was a duo-personality-that Bill Heirens had made George up the way children invent playmates. By such a device, they said, Bill Heirens could remain an average son and student, date nice girls and go to church, and at the same time carry on a one-man crime wave to make even Chicago's hair rise. Chicago's hair rose, but the back of its neck tingled pleasantly...
Young Bill has played it safe & sane since his teens. In those younger days he was a lank kid with a toothy grin, a penchant for flying, no allergy to work. On school vacations he worked as a "fly boy" in the pressroom at his father's New York Mirror. By the time he was 23 he was president of the American, and nobody objected. He earned the fond regard of Manhattan cops and firemen by plugging to get them higher pay. Occasionally he went nightclubbing with Irving Berlin...
Outmoded. In Washington, newsmen who cover the Treasury Department asked for a new adding machine in the pressroom, because the present one, installed during the Coolidge Administration, computes only as high as the millions...
Last week, after reporting for duty, Admiral Miller strode into the Navy Building pressroom, perched himself on the edge of a desk and announced his doctrine: "One of the things I believe in and one of the things I'm going to do is see that you know what the hell is going...
Newsman Cowan, 34, a shy, stocky, serious Omaha World-Herald reporter-photographer who covers the police run on weekends, was sitting in Omaha's detective bureau when the accident call droned in over the radio. Racing down two flights of stairs to the pressroom, he grabbed his camera, ran for his car. Too rushed to put on his tire chains, he set off behind the police ambulance (which had chains) in a skidding, hair-raising, 75-block chase over slippery roads, through red lights, down an icy hill. At the bottom of the hill...