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...Giddy Gazette New York City Sirs: I was interested in your account of the respective conventions of the National Amateur Press Association and the United Amateur Press Association of America (TIME, July 16), but there are several items which need correction. . . . First of all, the UAPAA was not "upstart," and did not organize under the name of Amateur Press Association of America. Although the NAPA had been formed 19 years before, the group of boys who organized the United Amateur Press Association knew nothing of its existence. At that time the National had become a staid and conservative body, with...
...joint members. Both are organizations of youngsters and oldsters who have fun printing small periodicals on their own presses. They call themselves "a. j.'s" (amateur journalists). The N. A. P. A. was formed in Philadelphia in 1876. Nineteen years later, also in Philadelphia, the upstart Amateur Press Association of America was founded. Later that organization prefixed "United" to its name, much to the disgust of the highly professional United Press...
...Army's disgust with do-nothing Ahmed Shah that a few hours of quiet maneuvering turned the trick as whole battalions went over to Publisher Saiyid Zia-ud-Din's revolution. Not long after the publisher found he had made the mistake of his life. The upstart Sartip had got himself appointed Minister of War and the publisher was exiled to Baghdad. Two years passed while brooding Riza Khan intrigued, cajoled and bribed among the military, forcing his deep plans and domineering power to triumph over weaker minds. While still only War Minister he reorganized the Army...
...week the problem of missions and money made news throughout two groups, one strongly conservative, one strongly liberal. ¶The Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions was founded so that Fundamentalists could give money to send out Fundamentalist missionaries. Last month the Presbyterian General Assembly voted to discipline the upstart Board (TIME, June 11). Last week the Board declined to be disciplined. Instead of disbanding as ordered, it elected two new members and appointed its third and newest missionary. Calling the General Assembly's action unconstitutional and "a foolish gesture," a Manhattan Board member named James E. Bennet declared...
...breakfast. Unspoilable Annie accepted her new fortune only as means to spread happiness among the poor, but Editor Patterson took an instant dislike to Daddy Warbucks. Who, he inquired, could get interested in a rich orphan? He ordered Daddy Warbucks banished. Harold Gray refused. To show this defiant upstart how unimportant his strip really was, Editor Patterson threw Daddy, Annie and all, out of one day's edition. First thing next morning the Tribune's telephone switchboard began flashing like an electric sign. By nightfall 600 readers had called to know where Annie was. Convinced, Editor Patterson reinstated...