Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Angeled by London's rich, young Allen Lane, publisher of Penguin Books, Transatlantic is to have three continuing features: 1) a Crowther commentary on what is going on in the U.S.; 2) a Washington letter by the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond; 3) "incidental notes on the state of the States" by U.S. Critic Carl Van Doren. The rest (save the advertising at ?75 a page) is and will be an all-American contribution. The U.S. editorial staff is a "steering committee" headed by Author Margaret Leech (Reveille in Washington...
...prompt to disagree with this academic handling of a practical problem. Said Edward T. Leech, editor of the Pittsburgh Press: "If we were to slant our news on the optimism or pessimism basis, we would then be propaganda sheets." Said Erwin D. Canham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor: "Headlines should be written [only] to reflect the news as accurately and graphically as possible...
Wrote Christian Science Monitor's Joseph G. Harrison from Cairo: "Some form of federation ... is approaching faster than many persons believe. ... If the present attempt fails, other attempts will succeed. . . . Modern economy and politics demand international cooperation on a regional basis...
Only one Champion came out of the dusky haze of Boston journalism to save the Professor, and that was the Christian Science Monitor which told the truth: Salvemini had taken his secret mission to Bar Harbor, Maine; where he was planning to have a little vacation. LaGuardia can go back to his fires in peace...
...fire- another destroyer claimed four tanks during the Sicilian landings, and naval guns got most of the 17 tanks destroyed around Gela in one day.* But it spotlighted how the 5-and 6-inch weapons of U.S. destroyers and light cruisers and the 15-inch rifles of a British monitor supplemented Army field artillery in the invasion's early hours. Naval bombardment of shore targets is not new; but at Sicily ships knocked out tanks and guns they could not see and supported infantry hidden by two and three miles of terrain. The British monitor shelled targets ten miles...