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...large, moon-faced Virginian, 56 years old. Unschooled (sixth grade), he learned about printing by working for a printer in Scranton, got a working knowledge of make-up in a Connecticut advertising agency. He even studied at a Better Vision Institute. After writing for printing trade publications, he got a job at New York University teaching typography on a commission basis (his pay: one-third of the tuition his students paid). In ten years Farrar upped enrollment from...
...Russia in 1906, was brought to the U.S. at the age of five. Artist Blume studied at Manhattan's Art Students League, supported himself by running a subway newsstand, working in a jewelry factory and as a lithographer's apprentice. In 1934 his surrealistic South of Scranton, showing sailors soaring through the air under a conning tower, won first prize at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh...
...recipients for the year 1942-43 are: Millard C. Browne, Editorial and Political writer, Sacramento (Cal.) Union; James M. Daniel 3rd, Reporter, Washington Daily News; John F. Day, Jr., Filing Editor, Associated Press, Huntington, West Virginia; Edward J. Donohoe, Reporter, Scranton Times; Robert C. Elliott, Editor, War News, San Francisco News; James P. Etheridge, Jr., Editorial writer, Tampa Daily Times, Tampa Florida; Thomas H. Griffith, Jr., Assistant City Editor, Seattle Times; Ernest M. Hill, Political writer and state capital reporter, United Press, Oklahoma City; Frank K. Kelly, Rewrite, city desk, Associated Press, New York; Erwin W. Kieckhefer, Country Editor, Minneapolis...
...harpist's reply that Rigoletto has no harp part, Gallo mumbled, "I'm not paying a harpist to walk the streets," ordered a harp part written in. Another time, Impresario Gallo avoided the expense of through Pullmans to Toronto by sending his troupe to Scranton, Pa. on excursion rates, thence by sleepers to Buffalo, thence by day coach. Saved...
...Decided to send a representative to Scranton, Pa. to survey possible defense-plant locations near the hard-coal source, after Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey told him: Even if anthracite mines were at peak production, "there would still be 60,000 too many miners in that area...