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...Senator, now 42, was born in Anaheim (pop. 15,000), Calif., son of the pioneer publisher of the Anaheim Gazette, a daily newspaper still operated as a family enterprise. He worked as a printer's devil when he was a boy, went to the University of Southern California, where he ran as a sprinter on the track team and studied law. He got into politics in 1936, served two terms as a state legislator, two as a state senator. At 30, he was chairman of the California Republican Central Committee-the youngest in state history...
...their respects. In the auditorium of the Pan American Union in Washington, D.C., 120 gathered to discuss the vast accomplishments of his many careers. There was Medina the historian, Medina the bibliographer, Medina the numismatist, as well as Medina the critic, the Cervantista, the lexicographer, geographer, anthropologist, printer and archeologist. It took the Union's visitors three days to cover the ground...
Snobs & Iodine. Hatlo quit school in Los Angeles at 14, became a printer's devil, and in his spare time was a publicity man for Mack Sennett. He worked his way into cartooning on the sports page of Hearst's San Francisco Bulletin. William R. Hearst himself spotted his drawings of an improbable community Hatlo called "Swineskin Gulch," and ordered Bulletin editors to use more Hatlo cartoons. In 1928 he tried his first "They'll Do It Every Time," was so flooded with letters from readers suggesting ideas that he has drawn it ever since...
...September, two members of the Young Republican Club walked into a Boston office building and collided head on with a member of the Liberal Union. After an awkward exchange of pleasantries, the political rivalries discovered they were both in the building to call for Registration literature at their printers. The Republicans' printer was on the fifth floor, the HLU's on the sixth. Both parties picked up their bundles and walked away, muttering about "a small world...
...glorious boyhood came to a close all too early. When he was eleven, his stern, unpractical father died a bankrupt, and after a year or so Sam was put to the printer's trade to help support the family. There was variety in the shop, all right (as when a cow wandered in one night, upset a tray of type, munched on several ink-rollers, wandered out again), but the golden days were almost over, and Sam began to wonder how he could ever get them back. Wecter's book leaves him still wondering, as he wondered...