Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week some of the toughest hides on Fleet Street were smarting cruelly from Churchill's thrusts. It was Randolph who punctured the inaccuracies in a series on his father begun (and abruptly dropped) by the Daily Mail (TIME, Dec. 12). Next to feel the sting was the Sunday Pictorial (circ. 5,466,255), whose blatant stories about a modern "virgin birth" created an uproar in the whole British press, until Journalist Churchill, under his frequent pen name, Pharos, in the weekly Spectator, exposed the fact that the hard-boiled Pic had been taken in by a prankster. Then...
...newspaper they could call their own. Last week the Brooklyn Daily, after five modest years as a neighborhood paper, took on new staffers and features (including some from the Eagle), and expanded to fill a borough-wide role. But it promptly ran into labor trouble. The independent Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union called a boycott to force the new paper to break its distribution contracts and to employ the union directly instead...
...statewide radio-TV hookup to report on the $100 million-a-year public business that he runs. Handsome and easy-mannered, with . a personality made for TV, he refuses to use a script. He chats about a variety of governmental subjects, reads and answers some of his mail over the air and, to the amazement of the station crew, manages to wind up each impromptu broadcast on the second...
Lions v. Wildcats. He went to a conference, cleaned up his mail, made some notes for his monthly TV report, that night went home to dinner, made his telecast and then went to the airport for a flight to Tampa. At take-off time, the governor was missing. A staffer found him in the baggage room, chinning with the porters. In flight, he worked on state papers, read a chapter in a book on Southern economic problems. Next day he made two speeches, talked to some old people basking in the sun and to some Democratic leaders at the hotel...
...They have won seven, lost four, and are running fast in a close race for the Western Conference championship. Coach Halas is satisfied at last. He is ready to step down and devote more time to his other interests?real estate, oil wells, a laundry and a mail-order house. But Millionaire Halas will never get over his pigskin heart. "You know," he said sadly last week, "there is no greater thrill in life for me than winning a National League game. Other men may get theirs from liquor, or dope, or girls or golf. For me, nothing can equal...