Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then lose your shirt at Horse, a tough, three-handed card game. Pinochle players have their own corner; the Euchre Club meets Wednesday night. Pool shooters have their table (darts are too damn dangerous). You can buy farm-fresh eggs or homemade horseradish, or leave messages on the bulletin board. No voluptuous nude behind the bar here; there is a slightly salacious wall mural painted by a customer of long ago. Summertime finds a horseshoe court set up on the edge of the parking lot, with a picnic table for kibitzers hiding in an elderly maple's shade. Regular...
...rushed down the hall to the noisy newsroom of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. He was apparently unaware that A.P.'s Photographer Jack Thornell had already reached a phone, and that at 4:29 Memphis time A.P. had sent off its first bulletin, which simply reported the shooting. Alford was still desperately trying to catch up, and when an Appeal reporter called with an account of what had happened, the A.P. man picked up an extension to listen in. "Meredith has been shot in the back and the head," the reporter said. In the clamor, Alford thought he heard "Meredith...
Without checking with anyone else in the room, Alford moved the false news. At 4:33, A.P. sent a bulletin to its 8,500 members reporting that Meredith was dead-and 21 minutes later a fuller paragraph went out, repeating that Meredith had been killed from ambush. For a little more than half an hour the blunder stood. Finally Alford asked an Appeal staffer: "You do have Meredith dead, don't you?" And at 5:08, A.P. got off the overdue correction bulletin...
...virtues of the classics. The crowd decided to vent their indignation on President Pusey, who first merely wondered, "Why can't I ever have a quiet evening at home," and then tried to justify the Latin-to-English switch in verse (borrowed from the Bryn Mawr alumnae bulletin...
...says a great deal by telescoping events and people with minute details. Security Council delegates, for example, are surveyed characteristically by a running description of their ashtrays, water glasses, and pencils. On another visit to the U.N. (one of her favorite haunts) she examines the employee bulletin board and discovers such gems as "meeting of the U.N. Folk Dance Club on folk dances of France, with Mme. Olga Tarassova," then retires to the cafeteria, where she meets a young Indian eating prune yoghurt and listening to a baseball game via transistor radio. "Two to one, Kansas City," he says gloomily...