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...York, Editor Edwin Balmer of Red Book magazine beamed all over his pink and pleasant face. He was about to release a news scoop for which a dozen publishers would have given the bronze elephants off their desks: the first authorized story of ex-King Alfonso's reign & exile...
...least one good reason the Post-Dispatch did not try to press its advantage on the story to the point of sewing it up like the Kelley story, as a P-D scoop. The reason: Reporter Rogers found Dr. Kelley with such dispatch and apparent ease that a strong suspicion was voiced by opposition papers that he had withheld important information from the police, who never caught the kidnapers. In the Berg case it was understood Reporter Rogers' editors instructed him "not to get mixed up in it." In the Post-Dispatch's report of Rogers' visit to Lawyer Richards...
...Academy, I can vouch for TIME and "lead shots," for while at the Academy I had many a weighty "lead shot" at the soda fountains of Exeter. As far as I remember they are made up of one-quarter glass malted milk, one-quarter glass sweet chocolate syrup, 1 scoop chocolate ice cream, with the remainder of the glass filled with heaviest of cream and the whole mixed to the consistency of marshmallow paste. Price...
...from their Nairobi plantation with another series of animal films arrived Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson, naturalists de luxe. Their live importations: one cheetah, two monkeys, two chimpanzees, three gorillas (the seventh, eighth and ninth now resident in the U. S.), two red-fezzed Uganda boys, Manuel and Diosaner, who scoop up their gravy in their hands, are startled by ice cream...
...wrote "not guilty" on a dozen bits of paper, scattered them on the floor where he knew a Tribune newshawk would find them. Next morning, before the verdict was returned, the Herald & Examiner was out with COOK FOUND GUILTY while the duped Tribune blazoned the fake verdict. Another great scoop was the 1920 street car strike, which the Herald & Examiner got from a grateful union delegate whom it had unconsciously flattered by referring to him as Mr. Boyle...