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...Blow for Bobo. Early in the game Ruark had learned the nuisance value of heaving a rock at a greenhouse-if it was not too big a greenhouse. When he went to Washington, B.C. in 1936, he had a degree from the University of North Carolina, hitch in the merchant marine, and $4.25 in change. A copy boy's job gave him his toe hold on the Scripps-Howard Washington News. In a few months (and after ( few staff shakeups by Editor Lowell Mellett) the cocksure young Irishman was the paper's top sportswriter. One day he accused...
...papers needed, said shrewd little Roy Howard, was a change of pace. The Scripps-Howard chain had a full stable of heavy and medium-heavy thinkers. What was needed was lighter, belt-level reading matter-about meat, sex, the movies. Result: by last week 30-year-old Robert C. Ruark, a balding, Southern-accented graduate of the sports pages, was the country's fastest-climbing columnist. His readily readable pieces, studded with flip and flossy phrases, were running in 19 Scripps-Howard papers and 20 others. He was making $500 a week, and had the promise...
Last week Ruark reminded his readers that it was an even year since the Navy "granted me its most priceless boon, that final handshake." On his anniversary, he took inventory of his crusades. Mostly they were small-bore: by carefully contrived cracks against radio, Southern cooking, horse operas, hairdos and politicking veterans, he had snared 10,000 letters. They had called him a "fascist, warmonger, race baiter and moron. Added to draft dodger, horse hater, sadist and war criminal, it seems I am a very unsavory gent, indeed, and I sometimes wonder how I stand...
...gunnery officer on Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys. Later, in the Solomons, he nearly lost an arm when his jeep overturned. When he recovered he got a job as press censor at Sydney. Scripps-Howard tried to spring him out of the Navy after Ernie Pyle died; luckily for Ruark, he stayed in, and was spared the ordeal of trying to follow in Pyle's footsteps (TIME...
...What puzzles me is that much of the best entertainment in radio is built around a sarcastic treatment of the things radio holds most dear." Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert C. Ruark wrote this "sorrowfully" last week. He was not opposed to all of radio. "Mary Margaret McBride . . . is preferable to a hole in the head," said Ruark...