Press: Lung’s Headline

In the absence of Editor Ted Scott, vacationing in his native New Zealand, the lively Panama American has been edited by a Chinese newsman named Winston Jay Lung. Acting Editor Lung soon found that his most tiresome duty was supply headlines to run above completely contradictory reports on the Ethiopian War dispatched from Rome and Addis Ababa. Fortnight ago, when a United Press dispatch arrived from the Ethiopian capital describing the death and burial of “15,000 white Italian troops and more than 5,000 native Italian fighters,” Acting Editor Lung came to the end of his patience. Entirely discarding headline type, he ran the story on the Panama American’s front page beneath a big black line drawing of a fine snorting bull.