Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, one of the architects of the World Bank. Like Currie, said Miss Bentley, Harry White helped put Communists in strategic offices and supplied information to her through Silvermaster. She added: "Mr. White knew where it was going but preferred not to mention the fact...
...American; and Austine ("Bootsie") McDonnell Cassini, 28, the Washington Times-Herald's modish society gossipist; he for the third time, she for the second; in Warrenton, Va. Her first was Igor ("Ghigi") Cassini, himself the society gossipist of the Journal-American, which in reporting the marriage made no mention...
YOUR CAPTION "YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER" AND MENTION OF 14% HIGHER INCIDENCE OF RESPIRATORY ILLNESS AMONG THOSE USING A SWIMMING POOL OVEREMPHASIZE DANGERS OF SWIMMING POOLS [TIME, JULY 12]. 14% CORRECTLY QUOTED BUT [FIGURE IS] UNFORTUNATELY ERRONEOUS. CORRECT FIGURE IS 7% AND INDICATES NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT INCIDENCE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE WHO USED AND THOSE WHO DID NOT SWIM IN POOL. WELL MANAGED SWIMMING POOLS OFFER NO EXCESSIVE HAZARD EXCEPT IN FACE OF EPIDEMIC OR TO THOSE EXCEPTIONALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO EAR OR SINUS INFECTION. MODERN MOTHERS MAY SING OLD TUNE BUT SHOULD CHANGE OLD WORDS TO ". . . AND PLOP RIGHT...
Judgments in Journalese. It takes a cool, mildly psychoanalytical, yet not quite Freudian view of the central character; it takes something of a doctrinaire, but not fully Marxian view of political events. It makes passing mention of the vices, mistresses and scandals of historic figures, as illustration of their human frailty...
Only once is there a mention in the book of the sweat that most reporters distill trying to find words to fit their big news. Charles A. Lindbergh handed a scoop and a Pulitzer prize to old friend Lauren ("Deac") Lyman of the New York Times when he sailed into exile (1935) after his baby was kidnaped. All afternoon, Lyman sweated over 13 different leads before, in desperation, he settled on a routine Times lead, such as he had written a thousand times...