Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soccer teams Kutis has found some of the glamour he longed for when he got a job with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and bucked to become a reporter. But after he finally got his chance to cover a story, he quit because reporting "didn't really have the glamour it seemed to have," turned to his father's undertaking business instead. Conveniently, what's good for Kutis' morale is good for his pocketbook; his soccer team puts his best foot forward. "You can't advertise much in this business, you know," he says...
...POLE!" shrieked a headline in London's Daily Mail (circ. 2,138-510), and below it, in the hoary old tradition of British I-witness journalism, ran Correspondent Noel Barber's breathless dispatch: "I have reached the South Pole. I am the sixth Briton in history to do so, the first for 45 years since Scott's party of five reached here in 1912, only to perish on the return journey...
...Call. For one thing, Belin told reporters that he was a graduate of the University of Arkansas. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch checked with the university, found that no Clyde Belin had ever attended. Belin also said he was ordained a Baptist minister at the Southern Baptist Conference in Hermitage, Ark. The Arkansas Baptist State Convention not only denied the existence of the conference but added that conferences do not ordain ministers. Belin said" that he had earned three theology degrees from the Southern Bible Institute in New Orleans between 1929 and 1931. But the nearest thing New Orleans...
...Jersey City last May, one of its first aims was to get revenge on the Jersey Journal (circ. 101,162), which had editorially supported an opposition slate hand-picked by Democratic Boss John V. Kenny. Murray's men transferred all city legal advertising to the rival Hudson Dispatch (circ. 58,037), refused to give out any information to Journal newsmen (TIME, June 3), even scheduled public meetings so that major stories would break too late for the evening Journal but in time for the morning Dispatch...
...last week it was plain to Journal readers-and to the rival Dispatch-that the feud had turned abruptly to friendship. In two exclusive Journal stories on the administration's slum-clearance projects, rewritemen carefully restored the Jr. to Jim Murray's name, while Editor Farrell ran the politician's picture on Page One for the first time in months. City Hall, in turn, promised to restore the Journal's traditional half-share of legal ads. Lucky Farrell promptly forged ahead with plans for a morning edition to compete with the Dispatch, started interviewing staffers from...