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Between the Times-Star and the Post, the city's other evening newspaper, there exists a state of healthy, oldtime journalistic competition. The Post, with a slightly larger circulation (200,300), is independent, quick to snatch up the torch of popular issues, taking its political cue from the national...
As an inspiration for cub reporters it was not, perhaps, the greatest newspaper story ever written. But cub reporters on the Telegram and all other Scripps-Howard newspapers read it with special attention because it had been dictated by the big boss himself, Roy W. Howard.
Author Thompson, 42, born at Weeping Water, Neb., turned carpenter, then college professor. In 1923 he visited the Orient on the yacht of the late Edward Wyllis Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard newschain, through whom he became Director of the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems.
Sirs: . . . TIME was very nice to me-much too kind (TIME, Oct. 28). In truth, most of the credit for that press rate reduction between the U. S. and Japan should go to General Harbord of the Radio Corporation. General Harbord was the man who first made the startling suggestion...
Died. Edwin Emery G. Slosson, 64, onetime (1891-1903) professor of chemistry in Wyoming, author Creative Chemistry, director of Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps' Science Service (news syndicate); at Washington; of heart disease. His wife, May Preston Slosson, poetess, was Cornell's first woman Ph. D. "To get even...