Word: mores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taking down stories over the telephone, coordinating them, revamping them, the rewrite man softly cursing the reporter for not getting more and better facts, is routine in every newspaper office. But last week the New York Telegram received a story by telephone which occasioned no cursing, which no one dared...
States Lines." It went on to tell, in. seven more paragraphs, how Stowaway Salaza-check had been discovered aboard the Leviathan on her last eastern trip, clapped into Bargate Prison for two and one-half days, and shipped back again on the Leviathan.
Loud was the outcry of U. S. newspaper publishers when Canadian papermakers, prodded by provincial government officials, announced they would have to charge $5 more than $55.20 per ton (the present price) for newsprint (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). The American Newspaper Publishers Association made the threatening gesture of inviting...
In South Manchester, Conn., Mary Keating, widow, sat in her window for two days while neighbors passed by and nodded to her. One of them, more observant than the rest, entered, found the Widow Keating, her feet in the oven, dead.
When he graduated from Yale (1908) Duncan Phillips had more literary than esthetic interest. As a child he had lived in gloomy Pittsburgh where his father's house was hung with murky landscapes of the Hudson River School in massive, gilded frames. Small Phillips decided he disliked pictures. After...