Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dinner with the Marshal. As I write this dispatch, sitting on the grass with my typewriter on my knees, I can gaze at the deep perpendicular cleft cut in the huge rock where I had dinner with Marshal Tito last night...
...feel unable to pass [the] dispatch in question, we would like [a] statement from you as to your reasons therefor...
Immediately on reading the dispatch from Anzio, Corporal Viereck's mother sat down in her Manhattan apartment to write her son a letter of congratulations...
...Bulletin's long, steadily strengthened grip on Philadelphia's readers. Most have given up with a too-easy revision of its slogan to: "Only in Philadelphia Would Nearly Everybody Read the Bulletin." The paper fits no familiar pattern for success. Unlike the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it almost never upsets an applecart, seldom even nudges one. It does not go in heavily for foreign correspondence. It is never spectacular...
...full of both. Massive, gregarious Richard W. Slocum became general manager six years ago, has worked steadily against the Bulletin's antiquity, toward a fresh approach in civic matters. Dwight S. Perrin, managing editor since 1939, went to the Bulletin after 13 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His assistant is chain-smoking George S. Seltzer, a walking Philadelphia reference library...