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Births & Deaths. A stubbornly determined man who insisted on walking two miles to work each day though he had an artificial leg, Cowles's energy, and his papers' fine-toothed coverage of the empire, killed off dozens of less able competitors. In 1939 his last opposition, the Scripps
League's Press (which had no connection with the Scripps-Howard chain), folded.
Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert Ruark heard about the discovery of 20 barrels of moonshine whisky on Bernard Baruch's South Carolina plantation, and thought he saw a chance to turn on a little fantasy for his readers.
¶ Stanford's Chuck Taylor (TIME, Nov. 26), the football Coach-of-the-Year title in the annual Scripps-Howard poll. Starting with a team built around a squad of unsung seniors, Freshman Coach Taylor inched his team along to a nine-game winning streak and a trip to...
Stuffing his script into his pocket, Harry Truman added that he wanted to give the reporters a lecture on fake stories about cease-fires and armistices. He recalled that he had been marching his battery down a road in France on Oct. 27, 1918, when someone handed him a French...