Word: bragging
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Under General Manager John Revelstoke Rathom, a firm believer in the old newspaper saying, "Raise hell and sell papers," the papers were sensational, slapdash crusaders. Even before the U.S. got into World War I, Rathom was convinced that German diplomats were spies. He liked to brag that he planted secretaries in the offices of high German diplomats to intercept secret correspondence, and used Secret Service men as reporters. Over and over, other dailies around the U.S. carried Page One stories of German intrigue that began, "Tomorrow the Providence Journal will say ..." But Rathom's enterprise got him in trouble...
...that the outcome of the world's struggle between capitalism and Communism depends in the long run on the fact that Russia, China and India comprise the overwhelming majority of the [earth's] population." With the Communist conquest of China, the Asia Firsters had something to brag about...
Wild Horses (Perry Como; Victor). A cheerful brag that it would take wild horses, obstacle courses and superior forces to keep Crooner Como away from his true love. The ditty has the distinct musical advantage of being built around a theme from The Horseman, a little piano piece for children by Robert Schumann...
Down to the Plains. As it turned out, Neubauer's brag was a little premature-only a little. With the three Mercédès chasing the speedy red Ferrari up over the 10,000-ft. pass to Toluca, down to Mexico's farm belt and into the dry cactus plains, Italy's Bracco lengthened his lead over Kling to seven minutes, left the other two Mercédès half an hour behind. But on the afternoon lap of the next-to-last day, Bracco's luck finally ran out. The clutch...
...return to Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg of his $50 uniform cap, which he lost at a luncheon in Detroit in August. The general's hat was "unique and unmistakably identifiable and encrusted clear around with silver lightning." The "overzealous souvenir hunter . . . cannot brag about it to friends, nor hang it proudly over the mantel, nor wear it . . ." If the hat is returned, "the general is willing to forgive and forget with no questions asked...