The Press: Howard Scooped

In Indianapolis, where he broke in as an enterprising reporter on the News 40 years ago and where he now owns the Scripps-Howard Times, Publisher Roy Howard turned reporter again. He was resting in Indianapolis' Washington Hotel, after lunching with the publisher of the opposition News and the general manager of the opposition Star, when a bellhop told him a car had just smashed up across the street. He rushed out, found that an epileptic driver had plowed through a crowd on the sidewalk, killing three people and injuring 14.

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