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Ever since his beginnings in a Cedar Rapids parsonage, Merlin Hall Aylesworth has been a salesman. Out of University of Denver Law School, he exercised his powers of persuasion so effectively that he became an almost miraculous collector of bad bills for doctors. Soon he sold himself for the job...
At twelve his son Robert announced he would be a poet. E. W. Scripps thought he would outgrow it, gave the boy a newspaper training, and suddenly installed him at 21 as editor-in-chief of the Scripps papers. In 1922, E. W. Scripps picked a selfmade Hoosier, Roy Wilson...
Last week a onetime Scripps-Howard writer, Forrest Davis, published a luckily-timed biography of Roy Howard in the Satevepost. Said he: "Scripps serves as king, with final power of yea and veto. Roy Howard is the prime minister, ruling boldly, conspicuously, restlessly, but only with Scripps's consent...
Before the death of E. W. Scripps in 1926. the Scripps-Howard papers were a great chain but they were not the household word-almost comparable with the name Hearst for press potency-which they are today. With the successful purchase of the New York Telegram and later of the...
With the death of Robert Scripps-none of whose two girls and four boys (chief beneficiaries of E. W.'s trust) is old enough to rule-Roy Howard, diminutive, dandified and able, last week became the head of the empire he had helped develop. His post: chairman of a...