Eben Jordan Saves the Globe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. Contents xi
4. Illustrations xiv
5. I. Another Newspaper
6. Ballou’s Globe: Venture in Bankruptcy 3
7. By Foot and Horsecar 17
8. Beecher Trial 22
9. First Telephone Story 25
10. Eben Jordan Saves the Globe 26
11. II. A Different Newspaper
12. Chas. Taylor’s New Globe 31
13. A New World to Florence Finch 39
14. Chas. Taylor Finds James Morgan 45
15. The Irish 47
16. A Poem from Dr. Holmes 50
17. Mugwumps and Democrats 53
18. Women are People—and Readers 56
19. Harvard Invasion 59
20. The First 100,000 60
21. New Building 64
22. Transit and “Corruption” 66
23. General Taylor and Uncle Dudley 71
24. Blizzard Breakthrough 77
25. News Enterprise, 1890 79
26. The Globe and Lizzie Borden 86
27. Color, Contests, and Comics 97
28. Globe Wins on Elections 104
29. Family Business 106
30. “No Free Puffs” — CHT Jr. 114
31. Confidential Chat 115
32. CONFIDENTIAL CHAT 117
33. Bryan Upsets Gold Bugs — and the Globe 119
34. Harvard and Other Sports 124
35. Dewey’s War 127
36. Advertisers and Contemporaries, 1899 133
37. III. New Century—No Change
38. 1900 139
39. “That Mad Man” President 141
40. The Auto Arrives 145
41. End of Innovation 146
42. T.R. and Hearst 150
43. Jubilee 153
44. Debut of James M. Curley 156
45. Patent Medicines and Other Ads 158
46. Steffens’ Boston 160
47. Chelsea Fire 162
48. Two for the North Pole 164
49. 1910—Airplanes and Democrats 169
50. James Morgan’s Hero, Wilson 171
51. History Day by Day 173
52. Uncle Dudley Joins the Globe 175
53. L. L. Winship Starts a Newspaper Career 181
54. “Evening” One Cent 184
55. Legends to Live By 188
56. To War with Richard Harding Davis 192
57. Sibley to the Border 194
58. Long Count of 1916 196
59. Sibley to France 200
60. IV. Struggle and Survival
61. All Souls 209
62. Night Side 214
63. Death of General 218
64. Transition: CH Jr. and W.O. 220
65. Trustee Publisher 224
66. Sacco-Vanzetti 228
67. Frank P. Sibley, Reporter 234
68. City Editor 236
69. Gardner Jackson 240
70. Cooling with Coolidge 243
71. Banned in Boston 248
72. Eddie Costello Lands Scoop 250
73. No Crime on Monday 251
74. On Radio 252
75. Vermont Flood 254
76. Part-Time Office Boy 258
77. A Beat on Bank Closing 259
78. Lindbergh Trial 261
79. Maine and Vermont for Landon 263
80. Contemporaries and Competition 265
81. Winship Takes Over 274
82. Promotion and Survival 276
83. James Morgan and Justice Frankfurter 282
84. Pics 283
85. With Wendell Willkie 287
86. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 288
87. The Church 289
88. The Joe Kennedy Story 290
89. War News 295
90. Victor Jones 297
91. Otto Zausmer 298
92. “Count the Bodies” 300
93. “What's This Mean, Mrs. Burns?” 304
94. United Nations 306
95. Copy Desk versus Composing Room 309
96. All Polls Failed: 1948 312
97. Amasa Howe 312
98. Brink’s Notebook 314
99. A Vice President Is Picked 316
100. McCarthyism 317
101. V. New Era
102. Davis Takes the Lid Off 321
103. New Quarters 324
104. Another Winship 332
105. Constitutional Reform 334
106. Dear Mr. President 336
107. Bob Healy Goes to Washington 338
108. “No Deal” on Ted Kennedy 343
109. Bud Collins Comes Aboard 346
110. Specialists on Everything 347
111. The Globe Takes Off 354
112. Tom Winship, Editor 358
113. Pulitzer Gold Medal 367
114. Death Catches an Extra 371
115. The Globe Takes Sides 372
116. Metropolitan 381
117. New Fashion 382
118. Society with Smaller s 384
119. Ear to Leeward 385
120. Help Wanted 387
121. Production 390
122. New Dress 393
123. Labor 395
124. Library 398
125. Critics at Last 399
126. Sound of Music 401
127. Internal Conflict 404
128. The Moon and a Kennedy 410
129. 1969: Confrontation 413
130. Titles 418
131. Into the Seventies 419
132. The Conference 425
133. Cigarettes: Matter of Principle 428
134. Spotlight and Self-Examination 431
135. In Perspective 435
136. Appendixes List of Sources Index
137. Appendix A. Morgan Letters 437
138. Appendix Β. The Board 439
139. Appendix C. Editors and Publishers 447
140. Appendix D. Awards 454
141. List of Sources 465
142. Index 471