FIGURES IN THE NEWS.
The ten moat interesting men in the world to newspaper readers, according to Karl Bickel, president of the United Press (America), are as followst-r-1, Herbert Hoover; 2, the Prince of Wales and the King of England, bracketed together because their personalities are merged right now with the variation of their news activities; 3, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh; 4, ex-President Calvin Coolidge; 5, Benito Mussolini; 6, Henry Ford; 7, Thomas A. Edison; 8, Charles Chaplin; 9, David Lloyd George; 10, Paul von Hindenburg. Much depends, of course, on the individual newspaper reader (says an American paper). Probably more people are interested, nowadays, in Einstein than in Hindenburg. It is debatable whether Lloyd George is a better "news" subject than Clemenceau. Commander Byrd, near the South Pdlc, is a better news subject than Chaplin. For the moment, American newspaper readers are more interested in when Babe Ruth will start hitting home runs, and in Dizzy Vance's pitching than in Mussolini's caperings.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 172, 23 July 1929, Page 6
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163FIGURES IN THE NEWS. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 172, 23 July 1929, Page 6
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