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The business of ghostwriting, thoroughly discredited, is believed to be on the decline. But the Oelrichs incident (see above) gave wise Heywood Broun, columnist for the 25 Scripps-Howard newspapers, a chance to review some ghostly history:
Tall, well set up, grave-faced and pleasant of voice, William Philip ("Phil") Simms, able Foreign Editor of the U.S. Scripps-Howard Newspapers, would make an impressive character witness. Last week he was back at his Washington desk from China. Eager to testify that in his opinion all is substantially...
It is not my purpose to go into detail or to explain motives but in reference to the so-called dispute with a Washington correspondent, Mr. Ray Tucker of the New York York Evening Post [now with Scripps-Howard chain papers] made a statement that I was a disgruntled ex...
A half-century ago, in the same year that the late E. W. Scripps was establishing the first of his chain, the Cleveland Press, Norman Edward Mack, a Canadian country boy who had learned about advertising in Chicago, was establishing the Times in Buffalo. At first it was a Sunday...
Controlling stock in the Scripps-Howard chainpapers is held today by Robert Paine Scripps, 33, son of the founder. The active chainmaker is Roy Wilson Howard, spruce, spry, 46.