Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Personally, I think you overlook an item of news interest of first rate importance. Why not "take a chance"' and open up the subject in a big way (and incidentally make a host of friends...
...that Mr. Legge was right. This pamphlet received front-page publicity in scores of newspapers, urban as well as rural. But what put it over was not Chairman Legge's eloquence or the testimony of farmers with contented wheat-fed cows. The news-value was in a little item written for the first page by Farm Board Member Samuel Roy McKelvie, Nebraska's smiling one-time (1919-23) Governor. Mr. McKelvie described how wheat, good for kine and porkers, had also been found good for other of God's creatures, as follows...
...Only Item of Progress: Mr. U Ba Pe, representing Burma, announced himself in perfect harmony with the Simon Commission's recommendation that Burma be divorced from the rest of India, constituted a separate crown colony or dominion (TIME, June 30). There,being no objection, the Conference officially approved the separation of Burma "in principle." Said Mr. U Ba Pe with emphasis: "We Burmese want to get away from India as soon as possible...
Suggestion for "The Trial of Vivienne Ware," which was promptly adopted for other Hearstpapers, came from the American's busy, owlish Editor Edmond D. ("Cobbie") Coblentz, longtime publisher of the San Francisco Examiner. He plucked the idea from a small news item from Copenhagen telling of the broadcast of a murder trial there. Writer Kenneth Ellis of the American's radio-news staff wrote the scenario, packed into it the stuff of which city editors' dreams are made: the knife thrown at Dancer Dolores Divine as she walks to the witness chair; the disappearance of the "mystery...
While asserting that training was an important item in preparing for a fight, the ex-sailor said he knew many fighters who would smoke two packages of cigarettes in the dressing-room before a match and not suffer from short-winded-ness. Sharkey's idea of having a good time after a fight is just relaxing and eating a lot of pie, cake, and ice-cream. When he is training, if he feels a craving for non-training table food, Sharkey will take a bit of pie, or a drink of milk rather than let himself worry. Hunting...