Word: headworker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper readers suspect how much headwork goes into headlines. A head must do more than nutshell the news and lure the reader into the story. First & foremost, it must "count," which means that the type must fit an allotted space. Hemmed in by columns, the copydesker spends his life finding short words like "nips" for long ones like "arrests...
...Headwork. In Vienna, House-Hunters Martina Lang and Franz Muelbacher got desperate, decapitated Joseph and Anna Schwarz, tried to move into their apartment, landed in jail instead...
...Headwork. In Bryn Mawr, Pa., surgeons found Factory Worker Freda McKeith partially scalped by a whirling drill, hastily sent for the scalp, successfully sewed...
...least two of his reportorial exposes have resulted in Congressional investigations. Last week he was plugging away powerfully and persistently for another-of Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran's reputed influence in the Department of Justice. In 1939 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his leg-&-headwork in uncovering the political prostitution of WPA in Kentucky. This year he won his fellow correspondents' vote as the Washington reporter doing the best all-around job, "measured in terms of reliability, fairness and ability to analyze the news...