Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giving advance notice of the new policy on the Du Mont network's TV panel show, The Big Issue, Hagerty found himself under fire. His attacker: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Washington Correspondent Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, who was still smarting over the Warren leak (TIME, Oct. 12). "The information order relates to the classification of documents," said Brandt, "[which] gave us very little trouble under the Truman Administration." Even if a document had been classified, he argued, newsmen had ready access to Government officials who would give the information they wanted. "The present Administration," said Brandt, "[seems...
Brittain had shown the promise right in Beaverbrook's own backyard. At 25, after making a name as a reporter and editor, he became assistant editor of Beaver-brook's Sunday Express, three years later was named editor of Lord Rothermere's Sunday Dispatch. In 1934 Brittain started out on his own. borrowed $1,600 to buy a weekly, Recorder, which had a circulation of only 700. He built it into a moneymaker, boosted its circulation to 22,500 and put together a chain of eleven other weeklies and trade papers...
With its front page still carrying stories about the Greenlease kidnaping case (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.), the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week printed a brief announcement on its comic page in place of two popular comic strips: "The Buz Sawyer and Steve Roper serial strips have been omitted. They will not be restored until after the kidnaping episodes in both strips, which may be offensive to many readers at this time . . ." After the announcement appeared, the paper was flooded with letters, many approving the P-D's move. But other readers were just as strong against dropping...
Kenneth Fairman, director of athletics at Princeton, laid the blame for the popular misunderstanding of the book's charge squarely on the Associated Press. He called the AP dispatch "middle of the week space filler...
...certainly hope that the Student Council will move with dispatch to rescind this absurd action which it has attempted to justify with some of the most amazingly unintelligent, illogical, and ingeniously inconsistent reasoning I have ever read. Hoger Allan Moore...