Word: splits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First step came last month when Connolly split the joint management of the two dailies, appointed Hearstling Merrill C. Meigs publisher of the American, Advertising Executive Harry A. Koehler publisher of the Herex. To infuse life into the moribund Herex, Connolly performed a major operation. This week, aided by red flares and sound trucks, red-capped newsboys hawked the first issue of the Herex as a tabloid. To give the tabloid zip, Connolly turned it over to onetime Herex Managing Editor Walter Howey, immortalized as the prototype of all man-eating managing editors by Playwrights Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur...
Proud of his handiwork and mindful that the constitution he helped draft in 1915 was submitted and turned down mostly in one big lump, Mr. Smith last week urged his fellow delegates to split up the 1938 edition for submission to the people. Result: at next fall's election, voters will have a chance to accept or reject eight main sections, and a ninth catchall containing all the rest of the convention's handiwork...
When the sun comes out during a shower, the drops of rain deflect the sun's rays and split them up into their seven spectral colors. There is no physical reason why a rainbow should not be seen when the moon shines, but such rainbows have been rarely described. Last week, Professor Armin Kohl Lobeck of Columbia University, urged by his scientific friends, modestly but firmly described a rainbow which he saw on the night of June 16, while crossing from Nassau to Miami. Said he: "Tumultuous trade wind clouds towered to gigantic heights and there were occasional squalls...
...dressing room, the world's first triple ring champion, who had just earned $20,766 in 45 minutes, cracked no smiles. Reason: he had a split...
...well as being one of the noisiest and most crowded in the world, the New York subway system is also the safest. Over its 230 miles of track bed, 8,755 electric trains clatter daily on split-minute headway, carrying well over 1,500,000,000 passengers every year, more than three times as many as ride each year on all the big U. S. railroads put together. Until this week no subway passenger had lost his life in a train crash in more than two years. Then one morning a closing car door caught a woman's hand...