The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-21
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Against all the excitement and romance of men and events of the past hundred years, story unlque in the whole panoramic history of headlines has reached the pub lie between the covers of striking ly illustrated book.
 The title of the work is "AP- The Story of News" and in dra- matic sweep it reccunts for the first time the actual. first-hand eXper- iences of a procession of reporters from the beginning of news gath ering to the rise of the present. day Associated Press as the world s eldest and largest news assocla- ton. of which The Empire is a member
 The author is Oliver Granting, spsperman since he obtained his first job at a S5-a-week reporter at he age of l5. He was assisted by William A. Kinney, now the Wash ngtcn staff Of The Associated Press. The illustrations are by Henry C.. Barrow, whose editorial page car toons appear daily in scores of pa pers over the country.
 News Gathering
 The story begins with the origin of systematic news gathering in Bos- ten harbcr in 1911. Ominous events were shaping the destiny of the re- gently born United States. The War of 1912 was in the offing, yet the people had no way of obtaining fresh news. Neither the telegraph, the wireless ncr the telephone had been invented. and public informa- ton tcaveied only by word of mouth.
 Tine tavern or the coffee house, rather than the sc-called newspa- pers of the day, was the best place to find cut what was going on, and Bcstcn was the trading center of the New World
 Gccs Out in Row Boat Into this setting appeared a young Bostonian, Samuel Toplitf, who went into the harbor by rowooat to ob- tain news from the incoming schocn- CTS. He gathered what informa- tion he could wheedle from the mer- 1 chantmen Of the world and record ed in in a news book at Boston s famed Exchange Coffee House where merchants and patrons came tc, read
 This enterprise marked the req beginning of news gathering anc out of Topliffs efforts came the newspaper practice of obtaining and printing daily news.
 Organizing A. P.
 The first phase of "AP-The Story of News" deals with these pioneer ing efforts, the battles between com peting news men, and the eventual founding of the first news gather | ing association The Associated Press-in 1848. From that meagei beginning the practice Of gathering | news grew uIlIll lie AT, dS IL ls familiarly known today, spends S11,- 100000 annually to obtain the in- telligence of the world for the news papers it serves. It is from this source that The Empire receives the bulk of the world news which it pub fishes for its thousands of readers
 Historical Names
 "AP-The Story of News" how ever, is more than recital of the evolution of one news organization Great names in newspaper history fill the pages of the book, which is primarily concerned with re- counting the first-hand experiences of reporters on the scene of worlc events from the War of 1912 to the present day.
 The book tells of the high-collar ed reporters who covered the Civil War; of Lawrence Gobright who wrote the story of Lincoln's assas- sination; of Mark Kellogg who trot- ed to death beside Custer; of the