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...London Observer once wrote. "There is scarcely a Press lord in Fleet Street who has not a finger or two missing to prove it." In 1936, five years after setting foot on Fleet Street, Journalist Churchill quit two papers at once-the Daily Mail and the Sunday Dispatch-because both refused to print one of his contributions. By nature mettlesome, he did not spare even his employers; he wrote of the "rivers of pornography" flowing from Fleet Street, attacked publishers as easily as Prime Ministers. When Fleet Street hit back, Churchill sued. In 1956 he recovered $14,000 in damages...
...such pseudonyms as Kasket Karl (Denmark), Tuff a Victor (Sweden), and Jan Met de Pet (The Netherlands). When Andy spanned the Atlantic to join the stable of New York's Hall Syndicate, his success was equally smashing. Among the charter subscribers: the Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and Marshalltown (Iowa) Times-Republican...
...vote, the Council waived a provision in state law that requires it to mail notices of a referendum to all registered voters at least seven days before an election. The waiver, which followed a brief hearing, spared the City the problem of finding $5000 and enough clerical help to dispatch nearly 47,000 pieces of first-class mail...
...media. Thus you reported in the Sept. 20 issue that "the Buddhist rebellion was directed by monks who were also consummate politicians, who were less interested in redressing religious injustices than in overthrowing the Diem regime." Father O'Connor reached somewhat the same conclusion in an Aug. 2 dispatch...
...Valley. Special interest pages on schools, youth and clubs were added. The composing room got the lead out, changed the body type and headline style. The paper fairly dripped with zeal. Says one ex-staffer: "It was like being in on the early days of Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, TIME or The New Yorker. We all felt that we were part of a mission." The pages blossomed with news from the Star-Tribune's Washington bureau; there was a weekend wrap-up section, features on abortions, Viet Nam, the county fair and Black Muslims. Three editions blanketed...