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More young men fortified with the practical experience of college newspaper work, and with the theoretical background of the social sciences, are needed as political writers, stated Nathan Robertson, Washington correspondent for PM and winner of the Heywood Broun award for the outstanding liberal newspaperman...
...Harbor. Suddenly she caught fire. If she blew up, she would probably blow up a good deal of Halifax too. At first her crew fought the flames with extinguishers, finally broke wireless silence to flash an S O S. The Navy's harbor master, Commander (now Captain) Owen Robertson, rushed aboard with a special crew. But still the fire gained...
Finally Commander Robertson decided to move the ship. Harbor Pilot Brackett, ignoring danger, went aboard. While the flames licked closer to the million-dollar cargo, he guided the Volunteer down the harbor, finally beached her on McNab Island. There seacocks were opened to flood the holds. The ship was saved...
...city rooms and editorial sanctums all over the U.S. there are oldtimers ready at the drop of a Martini to reminisce about the Herald's drafty, dingy shop in the rue du Louvre beside a clangorous trolley line; to swap legends about the fabulous, wispy, ageless columnist "Sparrow" Robertson who sent his copy over from Harry's New York Bar and lived 20 years in Paris knowing only one word of French-ici; to quote the letter signed "Old Philadelphia Lady" (asking how to convert Centigrade into Fahrenheit) which appeared day after day for 20 years...
...interlocking and overlapping federal bureaus which now deal with, and delay, every question of labor policy. That he had flicked a raw spot was made clear last week in speeches in the New York Times Hall by Labor Leaders Phil Murray, Robert J. Watt and David B. Robertson, who spoke with anger at having to carry every little problem to a bickering Government...