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World's Work made its great scoop in 1907, when Publisher Frank Doubleday induced John Davison Rockefeller Sr. to write his reminiscences in a series of six articles. It scored again in 1914. When the War broke out in August, Editor Arthur Page stopped the presses printing the September issue, tore down the forms, whipped together a thoroughgoing picture of the entire international scene, published it as a War Manual. Circulation, which had been about 100,000, leaped to 300,000 with that issue, stayed about 180,000 throughout the War, has since dwindled to about...
...Capitol Limited, going 40 m.p.h., jumped the track when a wheel of the tank-tender broke out of line. None was injured. At Princeton Junction, N. J. the Pennsylvania's westbound Red Arrow sloughed across three tracks at 45 m. p. h. when the locomotive's water scoop failed to rise properly from the track trough. Injured...
...William Pole, Comptroller of the Currency, was recently in San Francisco. Up and down Montgomery Street brokers and bankers guessed that his visit was to bring a halt to the running fight which Amadeo Peter ("A. P."; Giannini was waging on Elisha Walker. Financial re- porters sensed a big scoop when Mr. Pole summoned them to his office in the Federal Reserve Building. But when they arrived he gravely told newshawks he was sorry but he had nothing to say after...
...main theme of his talk is the author's literary career, its rewards & punishments. On this subject he spares no sensibilities, not even his own, minces no words, without malice prepense. He does not hesitate to call a spade a dung-scoop or Pegasus a stallion. Among those writers who can damn the world's illusion with feint praise, Cabell holds, deserves to hold, high place...
News candidates will spend the first week in becoming acquainted with various University sources, and with "newspaper style." Shortly after, when the "Scoop book" is opened, they will be given greater opportunities for displaying initiative and ability in gleaning items of interest from among the chaff of commonplace material. Ability to wield a pen with some fluency is essential, but previous journalistic experience is not necessary...