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Crackpots & Misfits. Bing was expelled from high school for sassing a teacher and went to work as a printer's devil, later as a $2.50-a-week office boy at the Detroit News, Michigan's biggest daily (present circ...
...half a million pounds' worth of paintings and prints, and the ?400,000 mansion (renamed Hutchinson House) which housed them had been presented to the British nation. The bestowal had been made, as the gallery's catalogue said, by "Mr. Walter Hutchinson, the famous master-publisher, master-printer and sportsman, who has overcome all difficulties, and now stands before the public as a princely benefactor of quite remarkable distinction...
...government printing offices, the King's Printer had begun turning out an order for 400,000 copies of General Election Instructions, a guide for election officials. If events in the House of Commons kept going the way George Drew had started them, the books might be needed sooner than most expected...
...Gazette, which began its 130th year last week, was founded by Printer William Woodruff, who ferried his press from Tennessee by canoe. "Mister J.N." Heiskell, who also came from Tennessee, has run it for the last 46 years. He has fought against governors and utilities, and for equal (but separate) opportunities for Negroes. He hates monopoly journalism; the Gazette once bought the rival Democrat, but Heiskell soon got them divorced. He likes to tell fellow Southern publishers that if they don't spend money to get good editorial pages, they shouldn't blame their readers for not reading...
Until 1946 (he died of coronary thrombosis four months ago, the day the proofs of his book came from the printer), Elmer Lincoln Irey was coordinator of all Treasury law-enforcement units. He wasn't a lawyer, he wasn't a detective, and he wasn't physically tough. But he had a genius for ferreting out the sources of gangsters' income and jailing crooks for tax evasion. Elmer Irey and his T-men put the finger on such arrogant law-flout-ers as Al Capone, "Nucky" Johnson, Moe Annenberg and Tom Pendergast...