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It generally took a bootleg murder to get "foreigners' " names in Cleveland's big dailies in those days. The city's 36 nationality groups lived together as hostile neighbors. One day in 1926, Andrica called on Editor Louis B. Seltzer of the Scripps-Howard Press. He brandished...
Between such spasms they ran the Sells-Floto Circus, beat the rival Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News into grogginess, forced Denver merchants to buy Bonfils' coal. They kept a shotgun in their red-carpeted office (which the underpaid staff called the "bucket of blood"), once were both wounded when...
Their partnership lasted 31 years, until Clapper's death in an airplane crash in the Pacific in February, 1944. They worked their way through the University of Kansas; even when they moved to Washington, and stooped, big-eyed Ray Clapper became first a crack U.P.man, then a Scripps-Howard...
To the slightly jealous working press, the Gridiron is the "Hardened Arteries Club," top-heavy with conservative pundits and alumni who have grabbed fancy public-relations jobs. Its roster is sprinkled with able men, but some of them, like veteran Scripps-Howardman Tom Stokes, had to win a Pulitzer Prize...
The ex-marine's opinions were frontpaged in 18 out of 19 Scripps-Howard papers. When Lucas promptly got 227 letters, all but three damning him, Scripps-Howard was sure that their marine had landed.