Word: dispatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break the surprising news he had heard only the afternoon before. Then he sat down and wrote the news for Page One, took the story to the composing room himself. Composing Room Superintendent Earl Barker read it and gasped: the Star-Times had been sold to the rival Post-Dispatch (circ. 290,052), would publish no more after that afternoon's press...
...Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer had bought the Star-Times's name, linotypes, presses, newsprint and circulation (179,803) to gain a monopoly in the afternoon field, leave St. Louis with only one other daily newspaper, the thriving morning Globe-Democrat (circ. 282,611). Reported price: between $3,500,000 and $8,000,000. The downtown five-story Star-Times building was not included in the deal; neither was the paper's ABC radio outlet, KXOK, or its FM affiliate. Star-Times Publisher Elzey Roberts had sold out because "material costs have risen faster than the increased revenues...
...crack foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. They were not sure of his looks, though to other correspondents in Iran Delmer's rotund, 250-lb figure and flamboyant air were as well known as stories about his big expense accounts. When Delmer lumbered in from filing a dispatch on the oil crisis, one policeman asked: "Are you Mr. Sefton?" Snapped Delmer: "No, and if you have any business with me, you'd better make sure I'm the right...
...Harris of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked: "Has Mrs. Truman made up her mind?" Chuckling, the President replied that she has never been very enthusiastic about my holding office, but she has had to put up with it for 30 years...
...word "corrupt" is often applied to Rhee, yet his enemies never disclose specific examples of corruption. The nearest thing to proof appeared in a Reuters dispatch from Pusan on May 11. On that day, Vice President Lee resigned due to "big-scale embezzlement involving government officials and military officers...