Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hell & Unemployment Compensation. The papers go after spot news with the same vigor they apply to a crusade. Last year, after the city desk picked up news of a $51,000 bank robbery, the papers sent out two-way radio cars to chase the police and the fleeing robber. Their coverage of the chase won the staff the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting "under pressure of deadlines." At the head of that 220-man staff is Publisher Sevellon Brown, 66, who has bossed the papers for the past 32 years...
Under General Manager John Revelstoke Rathom, a firm believer in the old newspaper saying, "Raise hell and sell papers," the papers were sensational, slapdash crusaders. Even before the U.S. got into World War I, Rathom was convinced that German diplomats were spies. He liked to brag that he planted secretaries in the offices of high German diplomats to intercept secret correspondence, and used Secret Service men as reporters. Over and over, other dailies around the U.S. carried Page One stories of German intrigue that began, "Tomorrow the Providence Journal will say ..." But Rathom's enterprise got him in trouble...
Turkey in the Straw. After that, things got hotter, and Greek Ambassador Athanase Politis called a square dance. Said an admiring guest: "He never saw a turkey or knew about straw, but he is one hell of a caller." Senator Estes Kefauver, onetime presidential candidate, boyishly hooked his arm around a tent pole and spun three complete turns. The Tennessee statesman, as usual, had a word to say. "Whee!" was the word. Speaker Joseph Martin grinned his friendly, lumpy grin. Senator Styles Bridges rang a locomotive bell and shouted "All aboard...
...Coming as it does only a few months after French Novelist Jean Dutourd's dour little satire, A Dog's Head, in which the human hero was born with the head of a spaniel, it may half persuade U.S. readers that French literature is now steering hell-bent for zoology. But Paranthropus erectus is, in effect, a mere monkey trick to help Author Vercors raise the question: What...
...couple of London doctors claim kids are right to say the hell with this vegetable...