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...Bell-Ringer. One of the best city editors in the business, Reutlinger has clung to his spot for a dozen years, while a dozen managing editors have come & gone. (His standard, deadpan approach to a new Hearst-appointed managing editor: "If you don't want me to work for you, just let me know and I'll make other arrangements." He never has to.) Hearst accountants may wince at the long-distance tolls he runs up, but he rings up scoops that way. By casual telephone calls, he got beats on the Dionne quintuplets' birth (it came...
There are circuses of one, two and three rings. I run, or attempt to run, a three-ringer. Only there are no cages and no whips (whips would leave marks, anyway). I have 43 performers in my circus: eleven in the fifth grade, 14 in the fourth, 18 in the third. The total arena is 32 by 23 feet. Except for two or three third-graders, none of the little animals have had trainers. They had a teacher three months of this year; she is now in a mental home. Not that the children drove her crazy; she just...
...flashes of excitement, and one of the greatest for this observer was seeing that big number 72 at the start: Chet Pierce wasn't supposed to be there according to the pre-game prognosticators, and one of the biased inhabitant of the press box was heard to say "ringer...
Winchester Wilds and Belmont Manor have a certain something in common, or so is spread the rumor, but W. W. (for brevity) has a little more of it. Success, so say the W. boys (Woodin, Willcox, Walker, Wood, Brocker--a ringer--and Wolf), if only in the mind, so take heart, mssrs. Schroeder, Shellenbarger, Marchese, Bourgeois, and Ballentine...
...equally hush-hush, plan: to inject a bit of fresh, leftish air into rural weeklies. His partner in this project (incorporated as Cross Country Reports) is Banker-Economist James Paul Warburg, an early New Dealer, then a fervent anti (Hell Bent for Election) and finally, in 1944, a doorbell-ringer for Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. Field and Warburg's ambition is to set up as a rival to powerful Western Newspaper Union which sends boiler-plate material ("pretty reactionary") to U.S. weeklies. Says Field, grinning: "I don't think I'll make my fortune here...