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...York Daily News. William Randolph Hearst was one of the daddies of comics (his early Yellow Kid strip led to the phrase "yellow journalism"). Last week the trade paper Editor & Publisher, reporting the launching of Hearst's newest strip, Dick's Adventures in Dreamland, dipped into the year-long correspondence over it that passed between The Chief and his men, let the trade look over the shoulder of an 83-year-old journalistic genius at work. Excerpts...
Died. John B. Thayer III, 50, Philadelphia socialite banker, survivor of the Titanic sinking (in which his father was lost); by his own hand (slashing his wrists and throat with a razor); in Philadelphia, after year-long grief over the death of one of his two sons in the Pacific...
From then on Oliver Morosco was one of the nation's most spectacular showmen. From a succession of Broadway hits including The Bat and Peg o' My Heart (with a glamorous new star, Laurette Tay lor) he made more than $5,000,000. But an 18-year-long plagiarism suit over The Bird of Paradise dogged most of his career, and in 1923 he was neck deep (though later cleared) in a $2½ million stock swindle involving his vast theater holdings. About that time, his shrewd judgment of box-office began to fail him. After passing...
...Nothing I write," says Author Wheaton in this light, gay record of her year-long (1935) honeymoon in the bleak Aleutians, "can possibly . . . show [me] to be a woman of strength and initiative." As wife of the local prekaska (storekeeper), and the only white woman on Atka, Helen regarded her Aleut neighbors with amazement streaked with alarm. The black haired, giggling, almond-eyed Aleuts, smelling strongly and permanently of fish, regarded Helen in turn with open admiration...
...Saunders' Royal Air Force squadron sadly posted him as missing; he had been gone too many hours on his reconnaissance mission. In their wildest imaginings his men could not have pictured what had happened: all by himself, Saunders had occupied Rangoon, the great prize of the year-long battles from India's frontier...