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When the World merged with the Telegram in 1931, Kirby stayed on, but by 1939 he had decided that Editor Roy Howard was too conservative for his taste; he moved over to the New Dealing New York Post. "When I'm through here," he said glumly, "I'm through for good." In 1942, when the money-pinched Post slashed his fat salary, he quit, never again joined a daily newspaper, although he did free-lance work. Last week, at 76, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby died in his sleep at the Manhattan hotel where he lived...
...weeks, Ira Cain, 42-year-old military editor of Amon Carter's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, had been working to get a beat. He hoped to report the maiden flight at Fort Worth of Consolidated Vultee's big, new YB-60, the jet version of the B-36 bomber...
...last fortnight a planeload of Pentagon brass arrived at Convair's Fort Worth plant, dropped a curtain of security over the flight date, and barred all reporters. Cain, a staffer for the afternoon Star-Telegram, drove his car as close as he could get to the test field, and for days kept watch, until colleagues began calling him "Audubon Cain, the bird watcher." When he finally spotted the YB-60 in flight he could only swear; it was too late to make his last edition, and the morning Star-Telegram, also owned by Carter, would get the break...
Outside Parliament, too, opposition strength grew. From Major Louis Kane-Berman, national chairman of the opposition Torch Commando, came a stirring telegram: "Fight on your feet or live on your knees." Strauss's reply: "We'll fight like tigers." At Cape Town's City Hall, he told a cheering crowd that his United Party had formed a single "democratic front" with Torch Commando and the Labor Party. Then he issued an ultimatum: "If the government creates anarchy [by ignoring the court], the people will meet force with force...
Hollywood Producer Leonard Goldstein received a telegram that surprised many people in the film colony when the news got around. Goldstein had got word that his newest picture, Battle at Apache Pass, was No. 1 in Variety's weekly poll of box-office hits. Apache Pass is an Indian picture that is merely a slight variation on the old theme of good guy v. bad guy among guns, horses and dust. But the film, which cost a piddling $681,000, is topping such gaudy epics as The Greatest Show on Earth ($3,000,000) and Quo Vadis...