Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis Post-Dispatch, for public service in its coverage of the Centralia, Ill. mine disaster...
...Richmond Times-Dispatch's Virginius Dabney, for editorials...
...that the Communist bid for mastery over Italy had been crushed. The erratic weather had not kept voters from the polls; the turnout throughout the nation approached 90%. The threat of civil war, which had hovered over the polls despite the peaceful progress of the balloting, diminished considerably as dispatch after dispatch told of imposing anti-Communist strength-even in the industrial north, in Italy's reddest citadels...
...rest of the Midwest press took sides. To the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the case was a dastardly attack on the freedom of the press. Marshall Field's Chicago Sun-Times sympathized with McCabe as a "rebel" against Governor Green's machine. The Chicago Tribune, the governor's most potent ally, ran one brief account and then dropped the story. Hearst's Herald-American saw the attack as "an outgrowth of a gang war for control of Will County's jukebox and gambling riches." Editor McCabe's competitor, the daily Joliet Herald-News, suggested...
...give the story "stark realism," CBS called in two ex-newspapermen as writers: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, once of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (more recently of the Satevepost and M-G-M), and Richard Carroll, once of the New York Daily News. Their job is to make Shorty's episodes self-sufficient, but with enough continuity to hold listener interest over a week-long intermission...