Word: newsbreak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CAPONE MOB COMING BACK, shouted the black streamer below it. The kind of newsbreak that Howey & Co. knew how to play to the limit had come along at just the right time. Four former henchmen of Al Capone had been paroled from prison, and the Herald was sure that they -and maybe even gunplay-were due in Chicago any minute. Across the page from that story, the Herald told all about "two good policemen who are on trial for trying to solve [a] murder." This kind of news, said a front-page editorial, was run "to help Mayor Kennelly prevent...
About V-E Day. There Steve Early, who seemed destined to handle at least one more big newsbreak before he quit, told hastily gathering newsmen to stand by. The President, he said, is preparing a proclamation. "Will it be about V-E day?" he was asked. "Not exactly," he answered, "but something like it." Radiomen were told to hook up their microphones at the White House for the reading of the proclamation...
Newspapers hopped gleefully into the controversy when they got another newsbreak: the resignation of one of CBS's most publicized newscasters. He was pale, frail, combustible Cecil Brown, 36, the honest but emotional reporter who survived the Repulse sinking and won radio's Peabody award for his warcasting (TIME, April...