One noonday last week in a thousand newspaper offices, when the automatic news tickers jangled the signal, FLASH! and copy boys raced to news desks with yellow slips reading CALVIN COOLIDGE DEAD, a thousand news editors knew instantly what to do. But the editor of the New York Morning Telegraph was puzzled.
The Telegraph is a 100-year-old paper catering exclusively to showfolk and followers of the turf. At some periods it has handled general news but for the past two years it has been bound by an inflexible rule to print only news...
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