Rentz is an unusual fellow. Born without arms below his knees, he can drive an automobile, play a piano, use a typewriter and adding machine—and roll his own cigarettes.
Promotion ad from the Sunday comic section of the "Daily Oklahoman," boosting a feature of its evening edition, the Oklahoma City "Times:"
"Ger Your Boop Curptep Every D.
"Follow Dick Tracy in the 'Times'."
Sometimes a reporter's job is to ask embarrassing questions, particularly when the answer might make a good news story.
When handsome Paul McNutt, Federal Security Administrator and erstwhile presidential possibility, visited Oklahoma City, Otis Sullivant, political reporter for the "Daily Oklahoman," asked the former Indiana governor: "Mr. McNutt, how does it feel to be pretty?"
The little group gathered about the visiting dignitary became tense and silent. Someone started to speak, toping to give McNutt an opportunity to ignore the query.
But McNutt didn't want that type of opportunity. He eyed the reporter for a moment, then replied quietly; "You'd never know."
A smile from the "Good Afternoon" column in the Brockton (Mass.) "Daily Enterprise-
Times":
"That facetious 'Truro Tells' columnist in the Provincetown "Advocate" may know what he meant when he chronicles that 'Phyllis Dugonne is bevin' a dormer window put on, Bro. Gray doin' the work, but it leaves the uninformed reader in some doubt ay to whether Bro. Gray is a carpenter or a surgeon."
An alert society editress spots another one in Atlanta: "The bridesmaids carried sheafs of pink hoses."
For full weeks at a stretch the sun has failed to shine in Southern New England this season, hence readers of the Hartford (Conn.) "Times" were quick to praise the verve of the copy desk editor who wrote the following headline appearing on a weather story last week: Hartrorp Has A Buessep EVENT—A LITTLE Sun.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.