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...Congressman from Franklin Roosevelt's own Dutchess County, Ham Fish has long yearned to oust his neighbor from the White House. Returning from a nationwide, 50-speech speaking tour, last week he "informally" announced to the Hearst Press that he was an aspirant for the GOPresidential nomination, a scoop which made news in Washington only to hermits. Aglow with political imagination, he also released a non-partisan slate from which, if nominated and elected, he planned to. draw his Cabinet. Some selections...
...Scoop of the week was scored by Webb Miller, United Press War Correspondent No. i, who got his news training in Chicago, remembers Mussolini as a fellow reporter at the Cannes Conference in 1921. Last week Newshawk Miller witnessed the start of the invasion of Ethiopia from the mountain-top observation post of skinny, goat-bearded General de Bono, sent an exclusive dispatch by wireless from Asmara (see p. 19). The message reached Rome before official dispatches, was relayed to London by telephone, thence by cable to New York and all U. P. wires...
...last week the alert New York Evening Journal beat its rivals to the street by more than one hour with pictures of Sophie Crempa's funeral (see p. 16). Because an hour is more than 60 minutes-as time is reckoned by afternoon newspapers, the Journal's scoop was noteworthy. Its secret was to be found on the roof of the huge East River plant which houses both of William Randolph Hearst's New York newspapers...
Yesterday morning streamer headlines in the Traveller told us that our last minute story was our biggest scoop in several years and successive editions threw us into a stunned silence...
...wild man, a jolly drinker, an able cartoonist, at Harvard. After college and a round-the-world trip, with tiger-hunting in Indo-China, he quieted down, succeeded his ailing uncle as publisher of the Pantagraph. A licensed transport pilot, he flies about in his orange-colored airplane called Scoop, loves to whisk his small son & daughter 100 miles or so for an ice cream soda. To the Cowles team. Publisher Merwin takes financial wizardry and a profound knowledge of all newspaper mechanical operations which both brothers lack...