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Burglarized: the Manhattan home of the Scripps-Howard papers' natty chief Roy W. Howard. Gone: two diamond bracelets, two diamond rings, some antique earrings-all the property of Howard's sister-in-law, who had left them with the Howards for safekeeping.
One newspaperman who was incredulous about all this was Scripps-Howard's Robert C. Ruark. Last week Ruark was in Havana, and when he saw the swarthy face of Luciano he headed for the wire office with anger in his heart.
Bacteria found in deep sea mud might soon make oil wells as buggy as vinegar works. Last week Dr. Claude E. ZoBell, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif., announced that he was well along on a process to infect exhausted oilsands with these bacteria.
In November, after a conference of Scripps-Howard editors in French Lick, Ind., the killing of Stokes columns spread. When the tabloid Washington Daily News, in the town he had made his beat, dropped three of his columns in a week, Tom Stokes's Southern blood boiled.
"I made inquiries," said Stokes, "and I learned they had discussed me at this French Lick meeting at considerable length. It seems the point was that I was interfering with editorial policy; one guy made some sort of crack like why should they pay out money for that? Well, I...