Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Court In Surrogate's Court, meanwhile, the Brothers Pulitzer, a morose trio, sat across the room from dapper, ebullient little Publisher Roy Wilson Howard who clearly manifested his desire to have at the business and be done with it. The Pulitzers had made a contract with Publisher Howard, contingent upon consent of the court, to sell him the papers for $3,000.000 plus another $2,000,000 to be paid out of profits, if sufficient, by 1942. Obviously Publisher Howard would scrap the morning and Sunday Worlds, merge the Evening World with his thumping Evening Telegram and gain...
...stature of the Immortals was unequal. And it was a fair guess that if Old Joe Pulitzer had had to choose a man to carry on his papers, sooner than to Edward Willys Scripps or his seed he would have turned to that kinetic little descendant of fighting Irishmen, Roy Wilson Howard...
...Scripps interests became the Scripps-McRae league in 1895, 13 years after Publisher Scripps availed himself of the services of a dynamic young Michiganian named Milton A. McRae, who re tired in another 13 years. They became the Scripps-Howard papers in 1922 after a conversation in which small Roy Howard, then of the United Press, told large Pub lisher Scripps that he did not believe in those newspapers. They had, he said, lost sight of the best social interest of the times and instead of People's Champions had become chronic growlers...
...upspokenness of Roy Howard was what took him from hawking newspapers in Indianapolis to the top of the largest U. S. newspaper chain (now 25 strong). It failed to get him along on Old Joe Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, where as an assistant telegraph operator he once demanded a $3 raise in vain. But he left Pulitzer and not many years later was confronting Old Man Scripps on the latter's ranch at Miramar. Calif. Part of the Scripps plain-people complex was plain clothes. Roy Howard has always liked fancy clothes and at this first meeting with...
...begins to relate the stalking of Mr. Howard by a gang of gunmen at Atlantic City,, suddenly goes insanely askew. Tom? Howard has an hilarious conversation with a ghost, but the show's few genuinely good moments are supplied by a hitherto unknown young man named Hal Le Roy whose tapdancing is peerless. None of the music, none of the gags, save The Gang's All Here from being a pretty waste of money...