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...Portland News; at Portland. While serving the United Press in London in 1910 he penetrated to the innermost corridors of Buckingham Palace by saying mysteriously to polite guards and chamberlains: "I am the U. P. man!" Finally he met King Edward VII.'s physician and obtained a world "scoop" in these four words: "The king is dying...
...sounded like a monster scoop when Ladies' Home Journal, kittenish, leggy, eagerly competitive these days under the editorship of Loring Ashley Schuler, announced that it had cornered the Paris pattern field. Magazines of massive circulation are dedicated to the serious business of dressing U. S. women in Paris clothes. Competing with Ladies' Home Journal (circulation 2,531,287) are Pictorial Review (2,459,750), McCall's (2,300,387), Delineator (1,511,573), Vogue (141,424), Harper's Bazaar...
...Journal conducted a campaign for U. S. styles by U. S. designers for U. S. women. Nothing came of it, however, and now the Journal publishes page upon page of lovely creatures tagged with French names, letterpressed in lyric strain. In the face of the Journal's scoop, its competitors professed to be unmoved. They would go on getting their patterns as before, they said, chiefly through style scouts, sketchers and copyists in Paris and other places where the famed fair exhibit. As everyone knows, there is a, giant pattern business apart from, that of the magazines. Paris Pattern...
...cook and back again. He worked for a milkman, a florist, a printer, a mason; turned up in the Army while still in his 'teens. In South Africa he resigned from the military in favor of newspaper work, and during the Boer War coded many a scoop to his London paper, much to Kitchener's embarrassment and the censor's discomfiture. The war over, Wallace was appointed editor of the Transvaal's largest newspaper, and on the proceeds he played with notorious bulls and bears of the Johannesburg market. He made $12,000 one day, lost...
...Last week, when Paris correspondents feverishly cabled their great scoop, every well-informed businessman knew about the giant I.T.&T. whose stock had gone up more than 100 points in one year. A year ago, before the Brothers Behn acquired the Mackay telegraph and cable systems (TIME, April 2, 1928), many an executive would have been put to it to explain: 1) What was the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.; and 2 ) Who were Sosthenes and Hernand Behn...