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There were other journalistic hazards far from the convention hall itself. A column by Scripps-Howard's Robert Ruark ("Doug was a dud as a keynoter") was stopped after it turned up alongside an editorial praising General MacArthur's speech as "A Call to Arms." Hearst papers killed...
As they prepared to cover the Republican Convention next week, newsmen all agreed on one point. Their big competitor in Chicago will not be the other newsmen; it will be television and its gavel-to-gavel coverage. In a memo to his staff, Scripps-Howard's news executive Dick...
Died. William E. Scripps, 70, publisher (since 1929) of the Detroit News (founded by his father, James E. Scripps, a half-brother of Newspaper Titan E. W. Scripps), and founder (in 1920) of the world's first commercial radio station, Detroit's WWJ-first to broadcast U.S. election...
Sour Grapes. The day of the court's decision, the Times-Star ran a sour-grapes editorial. Said the paper: "The Times-Star did not anticipate any such controversy .. . The cost of production has gone steadily up, and newspaper earnings have gone considerably down. Ownership of the Enquirer lost...
Once before, when she was only twelve, round-faced Doris Ann Hall of Hudson, N.C. had worked her way up to the finals of the National Spelling Bee, put on each year in Washington, D.C. by the Scripps-Howard newspapers. But that time, with 30 other contestants still left, she...