Word: justness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just Riding By. However other newsmen may question Paul Presbrey's news-at-any-price philosophy, they agree that he has been uniquely consistent in following it. In 1936, when Presbrey was a 26-year-old cub on the old St. Paul Daily
Three times in the past five years, Presbrey has "just been riding by" in a streetcar when million-dollar fires broke out in the sprawling industrial area known as the Midway, between Minneapolis and St. Paul. In 1945, while watching a St. Paul movie one evening, Presbrey stirred nervously in...
Later, in a hospital, 20-year-old Gayle Keen angrily told another reporter: "I was lying there in the wreckage when I saw a man approaching, and I thought: 'Thank God, here is help at last.' Instead, he just leveled a camera at me, and bang! then he...
The big job was to find just how to vary the current. To make the fish wiggle properly, he discovered, the intensity of the current must rise suddenly and die away slowly. Such "pulses" must be about two-thousandths of a second long. The pause between pulses must be timed...
A year later, Presbrey had to dodge gunfire again to get another beat. He was on his way for a quiet beer just as the cops flushed Dillinger Henchman Homer van Meter, then Public Enemy No. 1, from an apartment hiding place. In trying to escape, Van Meter ran in...