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...that the government had no intention of moving forces into Iran merely to protect oil installations, was reported to have won their tacit agreement. Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison announced to a cheering House of Commons that Iran would be held responsible for the safety of British nationals, reported the dispatch of the 8,000-ton cruiser Mauritius, mounting nine 6-inch guns, to lie off the port of Abadan...
Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, 55, a onetime Rhodes scholar who has covered Washington for 27 years, bosses the five-man St. Louis Post-Dispatch bureau. Pete Brandt leaves most spot news coverage to the wire services, saves his staff for interpretive stories and special assignments, thinks nothing of taking six columns to analyze a U.S. Supreme Court decision himself. His goal: "three-dimensional reporting," i.e., see, hear and understand...
Fourth Estate. After returning from Paris in 1920, Thurber went to work as a reporter on the Columbus Dispatch, where he stayed three years, mostly covering the City Hall beat. To Thurber's city editor, the pattern of a perfect lead for all stories whatsoever was: "John Holtsapple, 63, prominent Columbus galosh manufacturer, died of complications last night at his home, 396 N. Persimmon Blvd." Any attempts by the staff to get wit or originality into the paper usually landed on the spike. The city editor, who began by addressing Thurber as "Author" and "Phi Beta Kappa," came...
...Daily Worker shouted of "Fascist violence and terror," and nonparty voices, among them the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York Post, muttered darkly about endangered freedoms, berated the U.S. Supreme Court for its opinion (TIME, June 11) affirming the conviction of the top Communist leaders. The Providence Evening Bulletin said there is a real but narrow line between outlawing "conspiracy to teach and advocate" and "teaching and advocacy of radical ideas themselves," hoped the U.S. would stay on the "safe side of that line" and limit its anti-Red campaign to "genuine conspirators." That seemed to be what...
...headlined scandal broke on Dec. 11, 1861, in the columns of the Cincinnati Commercial. A dispatch explained: "He was . . . while commanding in Kentucky, stark mad . . . He has of course been relieved altogether from command...