Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondent Floyd said he had been slow to catch on to the main reason for optimistic headlines. "Now I know what it is. They write the heads to sell the papers." He did not mention that part of the reason was plain press ignorance of military matters...
...story was generally known in New York City and Washington, but except for Manhattan's PM (which published brief, cautious mention of the Post stories) all the rest of the U.S. press, afraid of libel and shrinking from dirt, avoided the story like the plague. The Senate tiptoed about, unwilling to face the fact that accusations of the worst kind had been publicly leveled at one of its members. Senator Barkley last week offered an excuse: when Senator Walsh came to him, "visibly agitated," he advised him to sit tight until the FBI could be got to make...
Newsprint had its own special scarcity scares. Its chief raw material, Canadian groundwood, requires huge amounts of power, which might be required for power-hungry aluminum mills instead. But Canadian newsprint mills today are running at only 75% of capacity: the power freed by the remaining 25% (not to mention excess capacity in other areas) should be more than enough for the new aluminum capacity scheduled to come in next fall...
Whilst I am writing to you, will you also allow me to mention the article [in TIME, April 27], entitled "Belgium's Finest," which speaks of Belgium as a "conquered" country, whereas all the Belgians maintain, and not unreasonably, that the country is occupied but certainly not conquered. This is of course a secondary point, inasmuch as all the Belgians are certainly very much pleased with the article...
...made good in front of the home crowd that night. There were, of course, the two winners, Burgstaller and Dunn, who continued their brilliant rivalry on the tenor sax later in the week when Andy Kirk came to town, but there were some others whom I'd like to mention here who played more than one fine chorus that night. The ones I have in mind particularly are George Springer, whose trumpet led the rideout finals with much gusto, and who played some nice obligato during Rushing's blues numbers; Stu Grover, easily the best of the three drummers...