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...York Times, among others, had hired the monsignor as Vatican legman. He turned in such a sloppy, inaccurate report of an important Papal speech that the Times's Rome bureau chief Milton Bracket had to repudiate the story next day. Eventually Bracker fired him, as did almost every U.S. news service. Pucci had handed the A.P. and other agencies a story that the then Msgr. Francis Spellman was planning a trip to the Middle East to review the troops; it turned out that he had read "Middle West" in a French newspaper and got the story wrong...
...York Timesman. Milton Bracker, who visited the hospital last week, noticed that the patients remain calm, even when planes roar overhead. Veterinarians say they can tell that a mule is in pain only by the expression in his eyes or by a quivering muscle. Only the "shellshocked" animals make any noise. A wounded animal first gets an antitetanus shot in the neck. Then metal fragments are removed and wounds dressed under anesthesia on a ten-by-ten-foot operating table covered with rubber. As in the U.S., there is a feed shortage. Instead of hay, the animal patients get. along...
...cost Montgomery Ward more than $1 per copy to publish its only method of salesmanship. A cover and four full-page illustrations by Artist M. Leone Bracker have been added. Copies for framing can be obtained for 15? each. Once Montgomery Ward offered to send a reproduction of its cover free. A hundred thousand people took them...