Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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City Room. Practically nothing else was talked about in the Worlds' offices next day. There were 2,867 employes. Only a few could possibly be absorbed by the prospective World-Telegram; and times were at their very worst. But mostly they thought of the papers which, however the merit of their news columns might fluctuate, always boasted in their morning sheet "the two most distinguished pages in American journalism"-the editorial page, whereon David Graham Phillips, Herbert Bayard Swope, Walter Lippmann and the late Frank Irving Cobb had swung crusaders' swords; and the "opp. ed." or feature page...
...World-Telegram. Within a few hours there appeared on the sidewalks...
York a fat, hastily contrived newspaper decorated with random earmarks of the dead Worlds. This was the evening World-Telegram. Before noon the Telegram's telephone operators had learned to chirrup: "World-Telegram." In the combined paper were Will Johnstone's and Dennis Wortman's (Metropolitan Movies) cartoons. It was announced that Cartoonist Rollin Kirby and Book Critic Harry Hansen would be retained too. Editorial Writer Walter Lippmann confirmed reports that he was going to retire. Colyumist F. P. A., who might have led a heavy following to the World-Telegram, instead "went home" to the Herald...
...much as possible of the "goodwill" for which he had paid so dearly. Busily he sought to avoid unpopularity such as the late Publisher Frank A. Munsey suffered for scrapping seven Manhattan dailies during his career. The first great headline under Howard's streamer WORLD BOUGHT BY THE TELEGRAM, read: PULITZERS PRESENT A $500,000 BONUS TO THEIR EMPLOYES. Alongside it ran Publisher Howard's statement, almost plaintive, almost apologetic in its assurance that "the consolidation means not the death of The New York World, but its rebirth...
Scripps-Howard. "To those two immortals in American newspaper history, Joseph Pulitzer and E. W. Scripps, we respectfully dedicate the first issue of the World-Telegram today." So wrote little Publisher Howard in further celebration of his purchase last week. It was fine as a gesture but all newspapermen recognized that the stature of the Immortals was unequal. And it was a fair guess that if Old Joe Pulitzer had had to choose a man to carry on his papers, sooner than to Edward Willys Scripps or his seed he would have turned to that kinetic little descendant of fighting...