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Moments later, Hughes joined the fun, expressing his delight that the executive order was soon to be issued. "It may have made unnecessary a telegram 1 sent to the President this afternoon," he added...
Last year Silliman Jr. died of a heart attack at 36, and five months ago, his younger brother, Amon Carter Evans, 29, came in as boss. Named after the late Amon Carter, Texas booster and sulphurous publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, young Amon had shown early flashes of the same punch that Pop learned as a cub reporter on the Star-Telegram. A vice president at 21, Amon preferred chasing police cars to issuing executive commands; once he threatened to break a chair over Seigenthaler's head when assigned to yet another park-concert story...
...York City, where seven dailies scrap for the summer reader's indifferent eye, the news dearth becomes even more crucial. The World-Telegram launched listless crusades against pigeons (they carry lice and disease) and buses (the service is lousy). Amid a welter of daily stories about the Monroe suicide, Hearst's Journal-American still found two pages on which to reproduce a dozen letters that former U.S. President Herbert Hoover got from children. One desperate day, the Herald Tribune, which has been running a daily picture of unrepaired potholes in New York streets, abruptly shifted this feature onto...
Press lords, like great generals, are expected to be a trifle mad, but the maddest of the lot, and one of the lordliest, was James Gordon Bennett Jr. Of the two James Gordon Bennetts (the father founded the New York Herald, the son added the New York Evening Telegram and the Paris edition of the Herald), Elmer Davis once wrote that "they invented almost everything, good and bad, in modern journalism...
...more than half a million. But when Hearst forced Bennett to stop publishing a hugely profitable page of classified ads inserted by prostitutes (the columns were nicknamed "The Whores' Daily Guide & Compendium") the paper went into a decline. In 1920, the limping Herald (along with the Evening Telegram and the Paris Herald) was sold for $4,000,000. Bennett had been dead for less than two years...