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...mild, well-mannered, colorless man of 35, who looks more like a high-school Latin teacher than the spittoon-bombarding type of promoter. Ned Irish never owned a camel's-hair coat. After graduating from Penn, he wrote college sports first for Philadelphia newspapers, then on the World-Telegram. Assigned in the early '30s to cover a basketball game in Manhattan College's minuscule gym, he found the doors locked when he got there and such a crowd outside he couldn't even get to the doors to pound. Filled with...
...peak (in World War I), City News served 22 papers, employed 150 reporters. Newspaper mergers and resignations whittled membership to eight. When two of these (the Herald Tribune and Post) resigned last month, their share of assessments (about $72,800 a year) was loaded on the remaining six members (Times, News, World-Telegram, Sun, Journal-American, A.P.). These six could neither agree to pay this extra nor to accept less service. Associated Press announced that it would take over City New's tricky urban coverage, adding 29 of its 67 reporters to A.P.'s own local staff...
Best-known and most ebullient of U.S. lecturers on the drama, New York World-Telegram Critic John Mason Brown annually faces clubwomen in most of the 48 States, spends as many nights in hotel rooms as in his own bed. The gusto he throws into his lecturing he has also thrown into a book about it. Accustomed As I Am (Norton; $2) makes amusing copy of a lecturer's occupational hazards...
...walk. Smacked the Herald Tribune: "The work of the Office of Civilian Defense cannot, in fairness to the nation, be left in such hands." Smacked the Mirror: "The Mayor . . . frenziedly advising people to 'be calm,' draws more raucous laughs than Abbott and Costello." Smacked the World-Telegram: "If the Mayor would only cool down, resign his national defense job and devote himself to his full-time duties in City Hall, he would be surprised, we think, by resultant public approval-and calm...
What flabbergasted the Navy most about Joe Lash's attempt to get into its officer body was what they read about his sponsorship. His application, according to the New York World-Telegram, was backed by his No. 1 patroness: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt...