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6 unusual facts about New York World


Carolyn Wells

Her first known illustrated newspaper work is a two part series titled Animal Alphabet, illustrated by William F. Marriner, which appeared in the Sunday comics section of the New York World.

New York World

As a publicity stunt for the paper, inspired by the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days, she traveled around the planet in 72 days in 1889-1890.

The World continued to grow under its executive editor Herbert Bayard Swope, who hired writers such as Frank Sullivan and Deems Taylor.

Potter Building

The Potter Building replaced one of the New York Worlds former buildings, which burned down in 1882, doing more than $400,000 in damage.

Ralph Pulitzer

Upon his father's death in October 1911, he become president of the Press Publishing Company, which published the New York World and the Evening World.

Robert Henry Newell

Among other newspapers he worked at, from 1869-74 he wrote for the New York World.


1933 Pulitzer Prize

New York World-Telegram for its series of articles on veterans relief, on the real estate bond evil, the campaign urging voters in the late New York City municipal election to "write in" the name of Joseph V. McKee, and also the articles exposing the lottery schemes of several fraternal organizations.

Allen Sangree

It appears that this series of events ended with the libel suite against Joseph Pulitzer, Caleb Van Hamm and Robert Hunt Lyman of the New York World as well as the World itself, and the Press Publishing Company for libel against William Nelson Cromwell, J.P. Morgan, Douglas Robinson, Charles P. Taft, Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Briton Hadden

After receiving his bachelor's degree from Yale in 1920, Hadden wrote for the New York World, where he was mentored by one of New York's most famous and accomplished newspaper editors, Herbert Bayard Swope.

Double Fold

A year later he became the owner of thousands of volumes of old newspapers, including various runs of the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Herald Tribune, and the New York World.

Baker laments the loss of thousands of volumes of significant 19th and 20th century newspapers: the Brooklyn Eagle, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York World, the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the New York Times, and many others.

Edith Evans Asbury

In New York, she found a sequence of jobs with the New York Post, the New York City Housing Authority, the Associated Press and the New York World-Telegram and Sun, where she served as assistant editor for women's news.

Frazier Hunt

Many of his dispatches appeared in Hearst newspapers and in the New York World-Telegram.

Gustav Klutsis

Despite his active and loyal service to the party, Klucis was arrested in Moscow on January 17, 1938, as he prepared to leave for the New York World's Fair.

Harvey Dow Gibson

He bought the Eastern Slope Inn in the same year, and served on the executive board of the New York World's Fair in 1939 and 1940.

Inductive output tube

During the 1939 New York World's Fair the IOT was used in the transmission of the first television images from the Empire State Building to the fair grounds.

James Creelman

After stints at several other newspapers, including the Paris Herald, the Evening Telegram, and magazines Illustrated American and Cosmopolitan, Creelman landed at Joseph Pulitzer's New York World in 1894, where he accompanied the Japanese Army to cover the Sino-Japanese War.

Jules Olitski

At an exhibit of the work of some of the great masters at the New York World's Fair in 1939 he was very impressed by Rembrandt's portraits.

Kitty Kelley

She worked at the New York World's Fair in 1964 and went on to become a receptionist/press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy.

Nicholson Baker

The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper (1898– 1911) (2005, Bulfinch; ISBN 0-8212-6193-2)

Reginald De Koven

-- city or state? --> He was able to find scope for his wide musical knowledge as a critic with Chicago's Evening Post, Harper's Weekly and New York World.

Richard F. Outcault

After he signed on with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, Pulitzer placed Outcault's comics in a color supplement, using a single-panel color cartoon on the front page called Hogan's Alley, depicting an event in a fictional slum.

Roy McCardell

Goddard supervised the new supplement, made by Outcault and McCardell, and the first Sunday paper comic supplement in color was the November 6, 1896 issue of the Sunday World, featuring The Yellow Kid.

The Yellow Kid

The four different black-and-white single panel cartoons were deemed popular, and one of them, Fourth Ward Brownies, was reprinted on 17 February 1895 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, where Outcault worked as a technical drawing artist.

Tom Meany

Throughout his career, Meany worked for several newspapers, including the Brooklyn Daily Times, New York World-Telegram, New York Star and the Morning Telegraph.


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Charles R. Forbes

On December 16, 1927, after the publication of his New York World article, Forbes testified before a grand jury in Kansas City that concerned his statement in the article that alleged narcotics was easily obtained at USP Leavenworth.

Elsie the Cow

A live cow representing Elsie appeared on stage at the Borden's exhibit in the Better Living Pavilion at the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair, in a musical revue with a score by the Broadway composer Kay Swift.

Jack R. Janney

Engineering News-Record (ENR) twice honored Janney with its “Those Who Made Marks” designation in 1967, for his full-scale testing (to failure) of several buildings at the New York World’s Fair and in 1982 for innovations employed in the rehabilitation of Chicago’s Soldier Field.

Nim

At the 1940 New York World's Fair Westinghouse displayed a machine, the Nimatron, that played Nim.

Ralph Pulitzer

He had retired as publisher of the New York World a year before the paper's acquisition by E. W. Scripps Company, owner of The New York Telegram.

Robert Hupka

Hupka was also the author of Michelangelo: Pieta, a collection of a hundred photographs, from various angles and with different lighting, of Michelangelo's Pieta, taken in 1964 when this sculpture was exhibited at the New York World's Fair.

Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain

In 1879 Chamberlain became editor of the New York World, but left to take charge of the New York Evening Telegram in 1881.