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...more clear-cut emphasis on them. Rolfe no doubt took himself seriously. But the answer is not to join him in self-glorification any more then to laugh his "sickness" away (the fairy-tale ploy). Hadrian VII could have used a bit more malevolence without slipping into the Swopian mire...
President of the new association is Charles A. Sloan, formerly in charge of broadcasting for the New York World. Herbert Bayard Swope, retired executive editor of the World, was reported to have given advice on the enterprise but he denied having any formal connection with it. The former Swopian Secretary, Miss H. A. Millar, is secretary of the new company...
Herbert Bayard Swope, redheaded, blue-shirted, jut-jawed journalist, left his post as executive editor of the New York World on Jan. 1. Thereafter, many a fellow-journalist pondered the Swopian future. What would he do, this man of 47 surcharged with energy, wealth, self-confidence? Would he buy a great metropolitan daily? Would he go into politics, write a book, be tsar of some industry? Or would he just twiddle his talented thumbs...
Observers noticed that the Swopian advertisement was published five columns wide in the World's contemporaries, the Times and Herald Tribune, but only four columns wide in the no longer Swopian World...
...Swope's lusty voice has long spouted praises of that hapless warrior. Renaud, it was said, had never been able to forget, let alone forgive, the Germans. Swope on the other hand is critical of jingo patriotism. And in religious matters, Renaud was described as uncompromisingly Protestant. The Swopian World's news columns were always wide open to the Catholics...
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