Word: transcripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pioneer among secular newspapers was the Boston Transcript when it instituted a religious department - "The Churchman Afield"-33 years ago. The "Churchman" was Herbert Hervey Fletcher, who had gone into journalism in 1879, became manager of the New England Associated Press in 1887, associate managing editor of the Transcript in 1897. New England came to know "Churchman" Fletcher well. Apocryphal perhaps but typical is the story of the provincial lady who wrote in to say her 25-year-old son was spending a week in Boston, would the Churchman be good enough to keep...
...Street runs on, past the Hill invaded by the Celtic horde, over its same worn brick way. In the twilight comes a glimpse, through the drawn shades, of the Bulfinch drawing rooms, and of the scrubbed and shining faces of the matrons, filled with the light of the Boston Transcript. Closed to the Boston, which is now Greater, is a world, a complete world, sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and -- sans End. Turn down an empty Glass! Or so we read in the magazines...
...following is the abridged form of an article which appeared in last week's Boston Transcript by Gwendoline Keene...
...litigants. The case involved an automobile collision. Immediately before the collision, one of the automobiles had struck a cow; and during the trial it became important for the plaintiff to bring out the speed with which this cow was moving. It has been several years since I read the transcript of the testimony, but as I now remember it, this part of the testimony was, in effect, as follows...
...news about themselves. It was lordly Charles Alexander who, many years ago. prompted a secretary to announce: "The gentleman from the Transcript, and four reporters." Last winter Mr. Alexander yielded his duties to his assistant. Anne L. Lawless, known to her colleagues as "Orchid Annie." Manhattan's social writing dean is an elderly gentleman with a walrus mustache-Frank Leslie Baker of the Times. His department is supposed to admit to print all creeds providing they can claim an ancestor who lived in the U. S. before the Civil War. More colorful than their dean are Maury Henry Riddle...