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...Delta Upsilon, to which Charles Evans Hughes as well as the Vice President belongs, "gave Garfield to the Presidency"; that Beta Theta Pi has never "given" any one to the Presidency but that it enrolls Frank Orren Lowden, William Edgar Borah, Robert Marion La Follette. "And here is a scoop. . . . Harry F. Sinclair ... is a Phi Gamma Delta brother of President Coolidge. Will Hays is a former National President of Phi Delta Theta, which gave us President Benjamin Harrison...
...Baldwin, with characteristic inadvertence, allowed the great news to leak out in such fashion that alert U. S. correspondents and their papers were able to scoop London by almost 24 hours. This caused a loss to British rubber men which London Rubber Magnate Arthur Anthony Baumann estimated at ?7,000,000. He added caustically, "10 Downing Street [the Prime Minister's residence] is really unfit to govern the Empire...
...Sutton is indeed the squealer and he will hang for his bad acts; his secretary is his accomplice. Captain Leslie is none other than the shrewd Detective Barrabal; he will marry Beryl. Tillman is a newsmonger, whose disagreeable imposture does not prevent his comic confrere from getting the real scoop on the squealer mystery...
...will therefore be primarily from the News point of view. But it will likewise apply with scarcely less force to the Business and Photographic Departments: the differences between the three are in the form rather than the nature of the work. Whether a candidate is chasing a scoop, trying to land a big ad, or trying to get an unusual and timely picture, he will run much the same gaunt of trials and successes, disappointment and elation...
...Ford's answer to this was last week's statement, a copy of which he sent to Arthur Brisbane with the instructions: "Here's a statement that I have made. Write around it in any way you like." Editor Brisbane with a newspaper "scoop" in his hands, forebore using it exclusively; shared it with all press associations and Manhattan newspapers...