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...going to press or the editor to the races, the obituary in the first edition is apt to be brief. And so it fell out in the death of Thomas Mott Osborne, famed warden of Sing Sing, whose demise the Boston Herald covered last week. The notice- a two-inch filler on the front page -was headlined simply...
...accounts, described to their friends the scene at Mr. Osborne's deathbed, dealing in dramatic fashion with the pathetic figure of the aged warden, decrepit but courageous still, dying unattended. These glib ones might have been grateful if someone had warned them that even the Herald's two-inch notice (an Associated Press despatch) contained certain inaccuracies...
...show last week a hanger-man plumped the picture in front of Mr. Saint-Gaudens, pointed. Between the cheese and wine was a ragged two-inch hole...
...spring of this year Glenn Frank signed a contract with us agreeing to write a daily editorial for news- papers, beginning in the fall. We instructed a news-clipping bureau to send us all press notices. . . . and were inundated with clippings, from full-page feature pages to two-inch news-items-ELEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOUR up to date and more still coming." Appended was a list of the newspapers which had already subscribed for the daily editorial together with statement-made in strict accordance with the U. S. mode of measuring a man by his earning capacity...
...tests already conducted, holes were burned in two-inch steel plates at a distance of one mile. Dead trees have been fired at the same distance and animal life has been snuffed out at distances ranging from two to seven miles. Dummy planes also have been destroyed in air tests. . . . There is no doubt at all that this stroke could be sent in any desired direction for 20 miles...