Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pickings were slim; the Browns had made a deal, estimated at $565,000, that allowed only reporters from the London Daily Mail to have access to the Brown family. Doctors and hospital personnel were also exasperatingly inaccessible. Frustration ran high, and after a bomb threat was called in to the hospital, there were rumors that it had been made by a reporter or photographer who, as a last resort, planned to intercept Lesley Brown as she was being evacuated from the building. (She was indeed moved, but only to a different part of the hospital.) Snarled a hospital guard...
...journalists pursued the story, information slowly dribbled out. Some of it came directly from the family through the Daily Mail under the syndication deal, but other facts were unearthed by reporters in Oldham, some of whom were not above using £20 notes to loosen the lips of anyone even vaguely in the know...
...Lesley Brown, she has less difficulty reconciling herself to such anxieties. "I realize that this is a scientific miracle," she told the Daily Mail. "But in a way, science has made us turn to God. We are not religious people. But when we discovered that all was working well and I was pregnant, we just had to pray to God to give our thanks. It seemed right and natural...
...great press circus was on. The Oldham News was out with a major story the next day; London's Daily Mail is said to have offered $190 to an Oldham reporter for the parents' names, and journalists began pouring into town from around the world. At least one posed as a friend of a patient to gain admittance to the hospital. Three Japanese photographers began shooting pictures of every pregnant woman in sight. Said a hospital spokesman: "It seems if you move anything, there is a reporter behind...
...Star and the London Sun). The three U.S. commercial television networks were asked to bid on North American broadcasting rights, but all declined. Finally, on July 9, the Browns accepted a high bid of nearly $600,000 for world print rights from Associated Newspapers, owner of the Daily Mail, which quickly retailed North American print rights to the Enquirer...