Word: cubbing
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...Tyro. Although never a cub in the Times shop, Mrs. McCormick schooled herself for years before filing a cable. British-born (in Wakefield, Yorkshire, of American parents) Anne O'Hare grew up in Columbus, Ohio, went to St. Mary of the Springs Academy ('98) and the College of St. Mary of the Springs. In Cleveland she worked as associate editor of the weekly Catholic Universe Bulletin, on which her mother, Poet Teresa O'Hare, was once woman's-page editor...
When Ben Grauer was a cub announcer at NBC, back in 1930, he competed with ten other announcers for a program sponsored by Gobel's bologna. The other ten sounded very highbrow, but Ben got the job. "That's the man," the sponsor cried, "that's what I sell-baloney...
Secretary of State George Marshall got two plans for European recovery last week. The first came from a group of Maryland cub scouts, who called to tell him about their own "Junior Marshall Plan" for raising funds to help Europe's children. The other came from Michigan's big, grey Senator Arthur Vandenberg...
William M. Pinkerton, director of the University News Office, quoted the figure of $86 a week as scale for a Boston reporter with five years' experience "A cub," he announced, "only earns $45, and much less on a small-time newspaper...
...cub on the old Paris Soir, flashy Max Corre, now 35, took his creed from a sign above an editor's desk: "1) Where is the fact? 2) Where is the human interest? 3) Where is the tra-la-la?" The thing that most impressed him was the tralala. When France fell, Corre managed to miss the occupation's hardships by going to Lyon. But he turned up as an eleventh-hour Resistance soldier under General Leclerc and rode into Paris as a private in one of the first jeeps behind Leclerc...