Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scoop. In Topeka, Kans., the State Journal headlined a story on the city's new hook-&-ladder truck, NOW BRING ON YOUR TEN-FLOOR FIRE, two minutes after publication sent reporters to a fire in the ten-floor Hotel Kansan...
What was it? The researchers isolated one microorganism after another; they cultured each and tried it out. Last week they reported in the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine that they had found a chicken dung culture which produced the same effect as liver extract in patients with pernicious anemia...
...Santa Ana, Calif. Register; the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph; the Bucyrus, Ohio Telegraph-Forum; the Pampa, Tex. Daily News; the Clovis, N.Mex. News-Journal; the Marysville, Calif. Appeal-Democrat...
...liberal Louisville Courier-Journal (circ. 167,727) and its breadwinning sister, the afternoon Times (168,858), have two links with the good old days of fire-breathing Editor "Marse Henry" Watterson. One is their old-fashioned home on Liberty Street, where another local monopoly-the post office-once dwelt. The other is doughty, ice-blue-eyed Tom Wallace, editor of the Times, whom Marse Henry hired to get a youthful viewpoint into his crochety editorial page...
Cryptic Brevity. A native Kentuckian (born in a town called Hurricane), Tom Wallace joined the Times, at no pay, in 1900. He was 31 when Watterson made him the youngest member of the Courier-Journal editorial-page crew. Thirteen years later, when Marse Henry quit in a huff (because Owner Robert Worth Bingham came out for the League of Nations), Wallace switched to the Times as chief editorial writer. He has been there ever since, driving at dawn from his 150-acre dairy farm to fire his pungent editorial missiles through the composing room tubes...