[AMERICANA] [MENU] [NEWPAPER LEADERS] DINNER IN HONOR OF HOWARD DAVIS. AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION.

[Charles H. Taylor, Jr.] | [John Stewart Bryan] |

[1944].

8vo; stapled pamphlet, [8] pages. The menu for a dinner given by the American Newspaper Publisher’s Association at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1944. It is signed by Richmond Newspaper Editor John Stewart Bryan at the bottom of the front cover. With a tipped-in portrait photograph of Howard Davis on the verso of the cover, signed by Howard Davis. The rear cover is signed by most of the living Presidents of the American Newspaper Publishers Association and or members of the Board of Directors. They represented most of the major newspapers in the nation at the end of the World War II years. The signatures include: John Steward Bryan [Richmond News Leader]Howard Davis [New York Herald Tribune] Edward Butler [Buffalo News]Linwood Noyes [Ironwood, Michigan Globe] W. G. Chandler [Scripps-Howard Newspapers, New York] Jerome D. Barnum [Syracuse Post-Standard] Jimmy Stahlman [Nashville Banner] Edward Friendly [New York Sun] Howard Davis [New York Herald Tribune] Frederick I. Ker [Hamiton Ontario Spectator] ~Walter Dear [Jersey City Sentinel] S. R. Winch [Portland Oregon Journal] W. L. Carter [West Texas] W. E. MacFarlane [Chicago Tribune] David W. Howe [Burlington, Vermont, Free Press]~William F. Schmick [Baltimore Sun].~~For it’s time, this was a true gathering of American power-brokers.~~The Menu wasn’t half-bad either Cocktails, Highballs or Sherry, and with Turtle Soup, Baltimore style Terrabin; Filet Mignon Henri IV, Pride of Virginia Hame, with Bombe of Rum and Raisin Ice Cream with Macerated Strawberries and Brandy Liquors.~~.

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