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A Blow for Bobo. Early in the game Ruark had learned the nuisance value of heaving a rock at a greenhouse-if it was not too big a greenhouse. When he went to Washington, B.C. in 1936, he had a degree from the University of North Carolina, hitch in the...
The thing his chain of papers needed, said shrewd little Roy Howard, was a change of pace. The Scripps-Howard chain had a full stable of heavy and medium-heavy thinkers. What was needed was lighter, belt-level reading matter-about meat, sex, the movies. Result: by last week 30...
In 1942 he was commissioned an ensign, served ten months as a gunnery officer on Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys. Later, in the Solomons, he nearly lost an arm when his jeep overturned. When he recovered he got a job as press censor at Sydney. Scripps-Howard tried to spring him...
Last fall he returned to the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance in Washington, waited his chance at a columnist's spot, and got set to make a big noise. "I looked around," he says frankly, "for the biggest rock I could find to throw." His article on how returning G.I.s...
"What puzzles me is that much of the best entertainment in radio is built around a sarcastic treatment of the things radio holds most dear." Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert C. Ruark wrote this "sorrowfully" last week. He was not opposed to all of radio. "Mary Margaret McBride . . . is preferable to...