Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a week of journalistic antics, unequaled since the Hauptmann trial last year, the publisher of one of the greatest offenders revolted. In an editorial entitled WHAT IS HAPPENING TO JUSTICE? Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the News printed examples of the most offensive coverage of the Stretz trial he could find, admitted that "the News did the cleverest and worst," then denounced "the practice ... of trying murder cases beforehand in the newspapers. . . . The real issue is whether Miss Stretz . . . was guilty of murder. . . . But the defense attorney ... is trying also to paint the dead man as some kind...
Following this unique self-castigation from the front office, the News blithely continued to print all the Stretz case testimony it could lay hands on, masterminded over the weekend: VERA TO TELL ALL IN BID TO EVADE CHAIR...
...productions. Of the 19 new singers, only two achieved a real success. One was Australia's Marjorie Lawrence, who at 28 and with only three years' opera experience undertook the difficult Brünnhildes in Die Walküre and Götterdäm-merung, made news in the latter by mounting her horse, actually galloping from the stage in accordance with Wagner's ambitious directions. The other was Sweden's Gertrud Wettergren, who proved herself a sure singing actress, strode the stage regally as Amneris in Aïda, personified devotion when she sang...
Lead Belly was in Manhattan last week about to appear in a Harlem vaudeville theatre when Researcher Lomax again made news with another singing convict. This one was James ("Ironhead'') Baker, a Negro who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas. At John Lomax' request Governor James V. Allred granted Baker a furlough to tour as a minstrel, visit penitentiaries in Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, sing his songs so that other convicts will understand what Lomax wants for his folk-song files in the Library of Congress...
...year) hospitalization insurance plan begun last May by the hospitals of the New York City metropolitan area. By last week 174 hospitals and 65,000 prospective patients belonged to the Associated Hospital Service of New York. Four hundred people are now enrolling each day. Mrs. Laibson made news because she was the first member to have a baby...