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Died. Byron H. Canfield. 52, board chairman of Scripps-Canfield newspapers (Seattle Star, Los Angeles Record, Dallas Dispatch): of heart disease following a three-month illness; in Los Angeles.
One day, six years ago last week, the yacht Ohio dropped anchor in the harbor of Monrovia, Liberia. Her owner, Edward Wyllis Scripps, a big bristly-bearded man of 72 for whom the yacht had been Home for four years, had the U. S. Consul aboard to dine with him...
The first full-length biography of "Old Man" Scripps, founder of chain-journalism in the U. S., appeared last month.* Its author, Gilson Gardner, longtime Washington correspondent for Scripps and his frequent companion aboard the Ohio, had every facility for making it an authentic portrait, including the insistence of his...
If readers of Scripps (now Scripps-Howard) papers question the sincerity of a man who amassed a fortune of many millions, lived in quiet ease on a California ranch and aboard a yacht, yet caused his editors always to cry out for the masses, for Labor, for the underdog. Biographer...
Moreover, he revised copybook maxims for his own purposes to: "Never do today what by any means you can put off until tomorrow, and never do yourself what you can get anyone else to do half as well as you can." But the Scripps brain did not idle with the...