Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weekly Atlantic Highlands (NJ.) Journal (circ. 1,050) was short on personal items and society notes because its staff had been temporarily cut in half. Explained Editor William Buckley on Page One: "The Editor's wife, who goes around picking up loose ends after the Editor, is a good eight months pregnant and the doctor says she must take things easy from here on out. That means the number of loose ends she picks up is considerably diminished ... If there is something you want in the paper, or if you know of some little tidbit that's newsy...
...Gazette pays its easygoing, underpaid staff a top of only $50 a week. In the tiny newsroom, up a cobwebby staircase in the Gazette's old building, there are not enough typewriters to go around so the staff takes turns writing stories. It leans heavily on loyal volunteer correspondents for breaking news. Bragged one staffer: "There is not a police department or a fire department within a hundred miles that would not telephone us the news at any time of the day or night." But when the occasion demands, the sleepy Gazette wakes up with a bang...
...pound, hell-raising son of a Beaumont (Tex.) oilworker, McCarthy worked in the oilfields, began wildcatting on his own in 1933. He was in & out of the money before he brought in the League City field in 1939 and put his fortune, now estimated at around $50 million, on a reasonably permanent basis. He branched out into the natural-gas business, began picking up choice real estate, including Houston's profitable, 22-story Shell building...
...enter a car in this year's Indianapolis auto race. A crack shot, he spends much of his spare time hunting on his 15,000-acre ranch with his wife and five children. There are weeks when they see little of him. He likes to dash around the country in one of his two planes, sometimes takes the whole family along...
...week Ben & Joe were also turning out a new version of the Atomic Whirler -a beanie shaped like a plane with a propeller that spins when the child runs. Soon they will get to work on a brand-new idea-"a hat that stays still while the kid whirls around...