Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hadden often pretended ignorance, if he thought a story unclear or inadequate. Once, reading of the death of a general, a survivor of the Crimean War, he demanded a big story and shifted into Brooklynese to tell an editor why. "It ain't duh general, it's duh war," he growled. "Tell 'em what duh Crime...
...Luce called on him every night to keep him abreast of TIME'S doings. Hadden, kept up by blood transfusions, still remembering the early days of the magazine, sometimes found it hard to realize TIME'S success. One evening, as Luce outlined the magazine's first big advertising campaign-to cost $20,000-Hadden asked in alarm: "My God, Harry, have we got that much money...
While venality in the press is rare enough to be big news whenever it happens, the Thiem-Harris exposé made no headlines in newspapers in other states for two weeks. The main reason was that most of the papers did not know about it; no news service had carried the story. Explained Executive Editor Alan Gould of the Associated Press: "In the beginning, we didn't think it was worth the wire space." Last week, after the A.P. got some calls from clients, it decided the scandal was news, after all, and put out the two-week...
Divorced. By Osa Johnson Getts, 55, explorer and big-game hunter (with her late husband Martin Johnson) and author (I Married Adventure, 1940): Clark Hallan Getts, 56, her onetime manager; after ten years of marriage; in Chicago...
...laying out a mere $1,750,000, Young's Alleghany Corp. bought control of Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, Inc., the giant catch-all which includes three big investment trusts having assets of $580 million.* It was the same kind of shoestring which Young had used to tie down Alleghany's $2 billion assets in 1937 for $4,000,000 cash...