Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gloria hasn't been a bit well. She ran into this lobster pot when she was water skiing last summer"). Upon Putnam's Landing itself, in a slap-happy ending, falls a distinctly unguided missile. No such fate has befallen Rally Round, which zoomed with unerring prepublication dispatch to its logical target, Hollywood...
Outwaving such ardent flag wavers as Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, the Sunday Dispatch (circ. 2,420,000) canceled its new, highly touted contract for a weekly column by Muggeridge. The BBC scheduled, then canceled, several TV shows on which Muggeridge might have had a chance to answer his critics. Last week, in the unkindest cut of all, the BBC announced that it "does not wish to renew Mr. Muggeridge's contract" for 26 TV appearances a year. Protested London's Daily Mirror: "If all views must agree with the BBC (Better Be Careful) censors, nothing worthwhile...
London's SUNDAY DISPATCH...
...rival Evening Star. Gannett started looking for other money-losing dailies to buy and merge-and soon won fame as the busiest newspaper hyphenator in upstate New York. From Rochester, where he merged the Union & Advertiser with the Times, he went on to combine Utica's Herald-Dispatch and Observer, Elmira's Telegram and Advertiser, Ithaca's News and Journal. He fought Hearst in Rochester (where W.R.H. spent $8,000,000 in a hopeless stab at putting F.E.G. out of business), and was himself driven to the ropes in Brooklyn, where he bought the old Eagle...
JERUSALEM, Dec. 4--Dag Hammarskjold settled the Israeli-Jordan dispute over convoys to Mt. Scopus today, and Israel will resume the dispatch of supplies to the isolated ridge tomorrow...