Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a woman kidnaped a six-week-old infant from a baby sitter's apartment in Brooklyn a fortnight ago, the police alarm included a detail essential to the hunt for the baby: both the kidnaper and the child were Negroes. But except for the New York Daily News, no Manhattan daily so identified the missing baby. And most of the papers buried the kidnaper's race deep in their stories, while the New York Journal-American described the hunted woman closely from her missing upper teeth to her open-toed shoes, without anywhere mentioning the color...
Bertie was not allowed to mix or play with other boys. His first tutor, Eton's Henry Birch, was ordered to report in detail on the little boy's failings. When, instead, Birch became fond of Bertie, he was sacked. Birch's successor, Frederick Gibbs, had everything that the creation of a problem child demands. He kept "story books of all kinds" out of Bertie's reach, reported regularly that the frustrated little boy was "excited," "disobedient," "very angry," "rude," "half silly." Bertie responded, complained Gibbs, by "throwing stones in my face...
...second part of the Council statement not only called on the Administration to "state in detail the regulations and penalties to which all students will be subject," but demanded explanation of the "designated punitive action which will follow the violation of each of these regulations...
...addition, each of the different schools has published its own brochure, describing in detail the life history of every player who might conceiveably play in a game. These, of course, are in addition to the daily releases sent daily to newspapers...
...Tribune story does point to the tremendous organizing skill and attention to detail that running a political campaign requires. For the Republicans, the technical problems are less complex, but nonetheless extensive. They have chosen to rely more heavily on electronics than on bringing their candidates to the people, although the Vice President is getting in his own licks at barnstorming. And as the party in power, with virtually unlimited campaign funds, they have the added benefit of Presidential prestige when comes to making the necessary travel arrangements for speeches and press coverage...