Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as City Press moved into new offices on Randolph Street above Texas Guinan's old nightclub, news was waiting on the doorstep. Hearing a commotion in the street, Reporter Donald Coleman raced downstairs, found the cops chasing a fleeing prisoner, and phoned back a story on his recapture. Five minutes later, blue-inked, identical copies of Coleman's story were on city desks all over town...
Pinpoints & Planning. A harassed, high-strung veteran of 34 years at City Press, "Gersh" starts his $3O-a-week cubs as "ink monkeys" in the back room, running the duplicating machine. Gradually he teams them up with reporters covering police beats, courts, hospitals and public buildings, finally puts them on their own. From Gersh and City Editor Larry Mulay young reporters learn to turn out a story that is fast, straight and complete...
Nine times in the last 45 years, visiting Americans have beaten Britain's amateur best and carried home the 2-ft. silver trophy. Frank Stranahan, who won it last time, and U.S. Amateur Champion Willie Turnesa, who won it the time before that, were back again for the first play of the tournament in Ireland and they were top-heavy favorites...
After five days of match play, the task of turning back the Americans fell squarely on the broad shoulders of 200-lb. Ulsterman Sam McCready. Not many people had heard of 31-year-old Sam: a salesman for a London tobacco firm, he had never swung a club in the nationals before. But in the semifinals, there was Sam, wearing a fixed half-smile on his broad face. He teed off against Frank Stranahan. A brisk wind blew in from the Irish Sea. Between the wind and Sam McCready's smile, Stranahan's game folded up. He went...
...clubhouse is wired with trip cords; if an intruder steps on one, all the lights in the house go out. Still another keeps one brother bartending in the basement. In case of an inspection, the bartender is supposed to sweep his bottles into a suitcase and exit by a back door...