Word: ap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AP's Oliver Gramling, 36-year-old head of the membership department, onetime reporter, city editor, bureau chief, told the story last week in a book titled AP-The Story of News.* An official history, assigned by AP, Author Gramling's volume nevertheless justified its subtitle. For the story went back to the origin of news-gathering in the U. S., told many a rousing anecdote of the press along...
...AP's Rome bureau head, Salvatore Cortesi, as a joke gave the name of Pope Pius X to AP's treasurer as a business reference. His Holiness duly received a letter asking for information, told Cortesi he would give him a good character...
...bureau director, in 1937 that Andy Bershak was the greatest end he ever coached, and then, a day or two later, said the same thing to Alan Gould, then sports editor of the Associated Press, about Brud Holland, Cornell's brilliant Negro end who had a shot on the AP All-American. Then he denied making the first statement. He was going like...
...Nazi intellectuals, The Decline of the West is perhaps the most misunderstood of the influential books of the 20th Century. Last week a U. S. disciple of Spengler, Edwin Franden Dakin, selected and expounded the most currently relevant 15% of Spengler's text. Today and Destiny ap peals to the U. S.'s weakness for digests. It also appeals to the U. S.'s apprehension for its national future on a quaking planet. Far more than the shrill, prolix nonsense of Mein Kampf (U. S. sales: 197,500), Spengler makes profitable U. S. reading...
There are now three meatless days a week in Free France, but food rationing has not become universally effective. Alcoholic regulations are effective. The apéritif is outlawed. On three days a week no other spirits are served. France, whose world reputation for temperance was belied by her world's record of one saloon for every 80 men, women and children, is a much soberer country today...