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SOUTH BY THUNDERBIRD - Hudson Strode-Random House ($3). Record of anobservant writer's trip by commercial airlines from Miami to Buenos Aires and back. Illustrated by photographs...
President in 1936, stared at an AP dispatch which carried no logotype. Colonel Knox's face, normally ruddy and smiling, became ruddy and grim. He strode into his office, whose walnut panels once adorned the private library of late News Publisher Victor Lawson. Popping down before his little typewriter beside his great desk, Publisher Knox jangled the keys. In rare rough rider style he rattled off an editorial ripping into AP-the great press association of which Publisher Victor Lawson was founder, of which Melville Stone (founder of the News) was long general manager. He wrote...
...counsel and kept Transamerica on the board through a temporary technicality. By last week this breathing spell had cooled everybody off. The Exchange gracefully came down off its high horse, "requested" the listing; "A. P." as gracefully agreed. President Shaughnessy remained in office and San Francisco's brokers strode down Nob Hill jauntily once more...
...about to go on the air with songs by Gershwin, Victor Herbert, Oley Speaks, Jerome Kern. Frank La Forge, Daniel Wolf, Coleridge Taylor. Conductor Iturbi was not expected to accompany these songs and singers, but his emotional temperature began rising rapidly. He heard Mr. Peerce through two numbers, then strode upon the Dell stage, and began gesticulating at a radio announcer...
...that Lawyer Colombo strode toward the dais, waving his hands, declaring: "There must be some rule of fairness in this." Up jumped Examiner Lindsay, crying: "Now wait a minute, wait a minute." Yelled Lawyer Colombo: "Wait a minute yourself...