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...Carlin," had begun a 30-day incarceration. But Reporter Bernard was not suffering from a breakdown nor looking for an eccentric vacation. He was on a job: to investigate asylum conditions for an exposé of New York's politically controlled lunacy commission system. Sharp City Editor Amster Spiro had given him the assignment because Reporter Bernard had done some good sleuthing for the Journal before. But what was only a stunt for Editor Spiro turned out to be near-disaster for Reporter Bernard; last week he had to go to a private sanatorium to recover from his ordeal...
Last week Amster Spiro, 43, since 1927 city editor of Hearst's largest newspaper, the New York Journal which claims the largest evening newspaper circulation in the U. S. (650,000), launched "Flash News," just such a game with just such features. Two to six persons may play. Each is given a cardboard newspaper front page dummy. Players roll dice in rotation, take from compartments numbered two to twelve, according to the total of their dice, an item, headline, picture or special instruction card. Object of the game is to complete the make-up of the newspaper front page...
...Early this year City Editor Amster Spiro of the Journal saw in Editor & Publisher how Japanese newspapers use carrier pigeons. Promptly he bought eight pairs of pigeons from the U. S. Army, bred & trained them under an oldtime Army expert...
...Leonard Raum '35, E. H. Reed '33, W.W. Rodgers '34, Leo Rosenfield '35, A.H. Rosenthal '33, J.A.L. Russo ocC. J.J. Ryan, Jr 33, Luther Scheffy '35, W.S. Serafini '34, Morris Shapiro '33, T.W. Sharp '33, Peter Shuebrak '33, Samuel Silverman '33, W.K. Simpson '34, R.A. Skaife '33, H.M. Spiro '35, R.P. Stebbins '33, .M Stone '34, D.M. Sullivan '33, Allen Thompson '34, A.J. Torrielli '33, M.J. Travato '35, S.H. Tyng '35, Louis Urow '33, J.W. Walsh Jr. 34, J.D. Wassersug '33, T.F. Waters II. '33, D.G Way '33, B.H. Webber '35, D.A. Weiss '34, S.L. Weker '34, Leslie Williams...
...Coburn, W. T. Jay; 20, W. J. Knight; 22, E. D. Power; 24, S. A. Bowman, W. Thompson; 26, H. R. Blair; 28, C. P. Penney, Thomas Penney, Jr.; 30, H. A. Harder; 33, Rolf Ueland; 34, L. C. Bradley, Jr., J. M. Rankin; 35, S. S. Spiro, Norman Smith; 30, C. V. Ryan, Jr.; 38, Nathan Hyman, Joseph Greenberg; 40, E. A. Jencke; 41, W. S. Smith, G. P. Burch; 42, D. C. Swatland, F. A. Little; 44, H. G. Boggs, H. A. Woodbury, Jr.; 46, S. L. Fuss, E. S. Cannon; 47, O. R. Lindsley...