Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tactical Air Command, fought a bitter and losing battle. When Tactical Air was abolished as a separate command in 1948, impulsive "Pete" Quesada put in for retirement. He was independently well-to-do and married to the daughter of wealthy Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But the Air Force persuaded him to stay on to take charge of the Eniwetok atomic tests...
What did the dragon look like? In the Communist Daily Worker, where the words were first flung, and in such papers as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York Post, which gave them happy credence and currency, it was a sinister conspiracy, nourished on Chinese Nationalist gold and spouting un-Americanisms. It was so sinister, in fact, that the Communist Party, in its secret directive of 1949, ordered the faithful to hammer away at the propagandistic phrase...
...that the government had no intention of moving forces into Iran merely to protect oil installations, was reported to have won their tacit agreement. Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison announced to a cheering House of Commons that Iran would be held responsible for the safety of British nationals, reported the dispatch of the 8,000-ton cruiser Mauritius, mounting nine 6-inch guns, to lie off the port of Abadan...
Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, 55, a onetime Rhodes scholar who has covered Washington for 27 years, bosses the five-man St. Louis Post-Dispatch bureau. Pete Brandt leaves most spot news coverage to the wire services, saves his staff for interpretive stories and special assignments, thinks nothing of taking six columns to analyze a U.S. Supreme Court decision himself. His goal: "three-dimensional reporting," i.e., see, hear and understand...
Fourth Estate. After returning from Paris in 1920, Thurber went to work as a reporter on the Columbus Dispatch, where he stayed three years, mostly covering the City Hall beat. To Thurber's city editor, the pattern of a perfect lead for all stories whatsoever was: "John Holtsapple, 63, prominent Columbus galosh manufacturer, died of complications last night at his home, 396 N. Persimmon Blvd." Any attempts by the staff to get wit or originality into the paper usually landed on the spike. The city editor, who began by addressing Thurber as "Author" and "Phi Beta Kappa," came...