Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countries. Suspicious Pravda concluded that they would naturally indulge in important diplomatic conversations. Only in Italian newsorgans did the story make no splash. Obedient to Mussolini's order to boycott Britain's party (TIME, May 17), this was the full text of Italy's official Stefani News Agency report: "The Coronation of King George VI took place this morning...
...built box, twelve feet long, four feet wide, facing the thrones from a corner of the chancel, three still photographers and two movie cameramen were the eyes of the world. The still plates were handed out through a hole to a waiting messenger, sped in cars to the Central News Agency, headquarters for all services, to be flashed over the world by radio. In New York, the Abbey pictures were ready for reproduction within two hours, but were not very clear. Next evening Aviators Dick Merrill & Jack Lambie took off from Southport, Lancashire (see p. 23) with sets of Coronation...
...broadcast from Buckingham Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke of Norfolk went to a private projection room in London's West End to view the 7,000 ft. of film made in the Abbey. A close-up of Queen Mary weeping they promptly cut out. News of this excision soon spread, and thousands of British cinemaddicts who flocked to the movies were bitterly disappointed to see how little of the Abbey ceremony had been left in. Audiences vented their spleen on the Archbishop by sniggering when he was shown examining the Crown as if to see that...
...Post is printed three weeks ahead of publication, "Five O'Clock, Off California-" was not only a cracking Post piece but one more example of the uncanny Post prescience which has seemingly operated in an astonishing number of cases to link its articles with red-hot, unpredictable news. It was natural enough that the Post, like Collier's, should run a dirigible article at about the time of the Hindenburg's first voyage of the spring season.* But only by luck did the Post article deal with disaster...
...James ("Jimmy") Collins plunged to his death a few weeks after the Post ran his article "Return to Earth," a graphic piece of writing describing the plane-tester's feelings as he shot toward the ground at 400 m.p.h. Same year came the Post's most melodramatic news-coincidence, the article "Prelude to a Heterocrat-the Evolution of Huey Long." which appeared in S. E. P. day before the Louisiana Senator was assassinated...