Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once an editor with the quaint name of James King of William left his office at the Bulletin during a feud with Editor James P. Casey of the Sunday Times. As King reached a corner, deep in thought, Casey confronted him with the usual challenge: "Draw and defend yourself!" Before he could, Casey shot him. In the confusion that followed, someone stuffed a dirty sponge into King's wound and it became infected. Casey was hanged by the vigilantes-and posthumously cleared by a court. Too late to help him, the Sacramento State Journal righted the miscarriage of justice...
Free Mooney. Whimsical Johnny Bruce, an editor who never finds it necessary to shout or swear at his staff, was weaned on the newspaper lore of his town. At nine, the year after the 1906 earthquake, he hawked the Bulletin in San Francisco's Mission district...
...statement printed in the official bulletin put the jury's case: "Thousands of people in the U.S. are painting. Only a few of them are artists . . . The overbalance of the mediocre ... is becoming so alarming and is so detrimental to art and artists in their relation to the public, that the jury feels its duty is to throw its weight on the side of honesty and knowledge...
...Manhattan last week, a new publication, Good News Bulletin (circ. 150), added its small voice to the general debate. "Have you had your daily dose of catastrophes, crises and cynicism?" it asked, and went on for eight pages to tell such news as "50,000 Arabs Live Peacefully in Israel! . . . Better Drinking Water for Pennsylvania . . . Soviets Thank Quakers . . . FAO Hunger Fighters Take to the Offensive ... Wife Joins Husband in Jail...
...mimeographed Bulletin was under no illusion that its cheerful chirping could drown out the harsh diapason from the rest of the press. Its editors were "nothing but working newspapermen who are tired of the 'Daily Wail,' the 'Unlucky Star,' the 'Scare Telegram' and the 'Terrible Times' . . . We are no journalistic ostriches and we do not deny the fact that our world today is full of misery and injustice ... All we want to do is show the other, more pleasant side of the picture...