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All one spring night in 1878, a lanky, redheaded American tourist from Detroit walked the streets of London thinking about life and trying to decide what to do with his own. At 23, Edward Wyllis Scripps was already city editor of his brother's Detroit Evening News, but that...
By the time young Scripps turned in after dawn, he had firmly twisted one of Christ's sayings to his own future uses: "It is more profitable to give wages, than to receive them." Some weeks later, sitting in the Colosseum in Rome on a moonlit night, he extended...
The Golden Touch. Damned Old Crank is a hodge-podge of Scripps's autobiographical recollections, and one of the most eccentric handbooks to success ever written by a moneymaking man.
Scripps fathered the chain-newspaper idea: in his day, he bought or founded 49 newspapers. When he died of apoplexy one day in 1926, 71-year-old E. W. Scripps was head of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers (24), founder-boss of the United Press and of a whole clutch of...
Scripps was born on an Illinois farm, but he never let hayseed get into his hair. He was "the laziest boy in the county" and proud of it. Though he flopped at woodchopping and milking, he was a whiz when it came to moneymaking. He was still a teen-ager...