Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of last Wednesday, the Harvard-Washington University football game will be played in Cambridge on October...
...Siamese officials at Bangkok last week ended three months of negotiations and signed a military assistance pact. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. will provide Siam's poorly equipped 50,000-man army with $10 million worth of modern weapons and transport. It will also dispatch officers and technicians to help train the Siamese in the use of the new arms and equipment. Sample instruction : the care and operation of the jeep...
...newsbeat Smith had scored on the Wake meeting by breaking an agreement with his peers. At Wake, the correspondents had to share a single radio teletypewriter to Honolulu. As a result, they agreed to pool the first communiqué from the conference and send it as a joint dispatch to the three wire services, United Press, Associated Press and International News Service. When the communiqué-the only real news in the meeting-was issued, it was sent down to the radio shack for transmission. Before it could be sent, Smith took his own copy of the communiqu...
...Honolulu, on the way back, the New York Times's Tony Leviero sent a story forecasting a "knockout blow" in Korea (last week's paratroop landing above Pyongyang). Leviero's dispatch was garbled in transmission, so the Times wired back to check some of the facts. Leviero never got the original query, and was burned up when Smith got a play in the afternoon Honolulu papers with a "knockout blow" story of his own plus a Page One spread next morning in the New York Herald Tribune, Leviero's opposition. Leviero cabled his boss, Washington Bureau...
...notable representation of the diplomatic, political and social elite of two continents," had been "enchanted" with the "charm with which the capital long has been familiar." She was "easily the 'personage' of the voyage." The Post's society editor slapped a two-column box around the dispatch and at the bottom ran a rewarding byline for its correspondent: "EUGENE MEYER, Post Reporter...