Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story from the St. Paul Dispatch had everyone in the Minneapolis Associated Press bureau guffawing as it went clacking out to 1,500 A.P. clients, much as it had been written by Dispatch Society Reporter Dorothy Lewis...
With the efficiency and dispatch which has always characterized the varsity in such affairs, the Crimson squash team defeated a stubborn but outmanned Amherst squad, 8 to 1, yesterday at Hemenway Gymnasium...
...mutineers. Cried the Sunday Graphic: "The time has come to insist on getting what you have paid for. In every place where the service is bad or inconsiderate, go and start a row. A big one. You'd be surprised how it pays off." Crowed the Sunday Dispatch: "The moral is-kick up a fuss wherever there is sloppiness or inefficiency. As big a fuss as you can manage." Fearing for life and limb, skittish London Transport workers appealed for help to their union, which last week demanded compensation for any railwayman who might be assaulted by indignant passengers...
...credit of the Eisenhower Administration was the fact that by firmness at Quemoy and the prompt dispatch of marines and soldiers to Lebanon, it had prevented dramatic deterioration of the international position of the U.S. And it was a U.S. victory of sorts that Gamal Abdel Nasser, who began 1958 by triumphantly merging Egypt and Syria into the United Arab Republic, found himself at year's end at last aware that his Communist ally was a concealed enemy...
...extreme sen sitivity to Kelly's fourscore clients in the South: school integration. "Some places 'round here," observed Pogo to a butter fly pal, "education is perty well finished." This observation was too much for John H. Colburn. managing editor of the Rich mond, Va. Times-Dispatch. He ordered the offending Pogoism routed out of the strip...