Word: davision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The U.S. Navy's unbeaten crew, which chalked up the seventh straight Olympic victory for U.S. eights (the first: in 1920, also by an Annapolis crew), by a length and a quarter over Russia. ¶ Harrison Dillard, ex-Baldwin-Wallace College hurdler, who skimmed the 110-meter hurdles...
One Big Buildup. Even the most competent newspaper editor, says Davis, is often so convinced of the need to be objective that when he spots a "downright misstatment of facts" in a speech, he never follows it with a bracketed insert to the effect that "This simply is not so...
On the propaganda battle of the cold war, objectivity often plays right into the Russians' hands. For example, Davis noted that I.N.S. Correspondent Kingsbury Smith had a worldwide beat when he got answers to a list of questions he had sent to Stalin. "It has been reported-and, so...
Two Great Gulfs. Davis recognizes the danger that newsmen, in supplying adequate background to their news report, might easily fall into the trap of spreading their own prejudices all over the paper and "one Chicago Tribune is enough." Nevertheless, newsmen must do more interpreting. "The good newspaper, the good news...
¶Texas A. & M.'s towering Walter Davis, who high-jumped 6 ft. 8⅓ in., to break another old Olympic mark.