Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office one day last week, lay a wicked-looking gold-handled seven-inch knife-a "yataghan," presented to him by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Said the President, waving it over his head: "I can put it in the wall at 30 paces." Replied New York Daily News Reporter Doris Fleeson: "How far down Pennsylvania Avenue can you throw...
Tokyo's live-wire, fast-growing Yominri, listed among the world's "great newspapers" in an Editor & Publisher survey, specializes in foreign news, spends heavily for scoops. Last week Yominri carried an exclusive story of eight Soviet Army officers in the Far East who decided to follow the example of two who recently escaped by airplane to Estonia, saying they had fled to avoid a purge in which hundreds of Soviet Army & Air Force officers are being secretly executed. According to Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft...
...ignores lesser publications, had to eat humble pie by virtually lifting Augur's account. What made the pie harder to swallow was the fact that Poliakoff served the Times twelve of his 20 journalistic years, and since deserting it last year (preferring to work for a paper "of news, not views") has also scooped the whiskered Times on: 1) Mussolini's fall "peace gesture," 2) Hitler's intention to forgo colonies for a free hand in middle Europe, 3) the February British Cabinet crisis...
...black Afghan coursing hounds, Rib and Rab, one a gift from the King of Afghanistan. Their full names, Ribbentrop and Rabinovich, are Augur's private joke in defiance of Nazi anti-Jewish legislation. Trained to run down gazelles, Rib and Rab now lope with their master on his news hunts all over England, have committed nuisances in the sacred precincts of the Foreign Office itself...
...Roman Catholics and for others who dislike or disbelieve in birth control, there was encouraging news last week. Dr. Arthur George Miller, who operates a thriving women's clinic at Hobart, Ind., reported in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics that in 30,000 cohabitations 480 of his clients have not had a single unwanted child. All had practiced periodic continence according to his calendar specifications. His patients bring him a written report of the time of their menstrual periods for from six to eight months. These records, said Dr. Miller, have shown "that the old. time-honored 28-day cycle...