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...John Boettiger strode into the newsroom of the Phoenix Republic and Gazette, thrust a handout at a reporter. It said that Anna and he would "gradually" develop the newsless shoppers' weekly into a daily paper. It did not say (or need to) that John and Anna hope to break the Republic and Gazette's profitable monopoly. The Republic called itself the Republican until 1930, still talks like one; the Gazette, under the same ownership, is only a little more polite to Democrats. The New Dealing Boettigers obviously hoped to capitalize on one fact of life in Arizona...
American reporters went into Tokyo ahead of the U.S. Army, simply taking a suburban train like thousands of other commuters. (Said an obliging fellow from the Jap Information Bureau: "When young gentlemen wish go Tokyo? Trains every half hour.") They dropped in at Domei, looked over the busy newsroom, were photographed chatting with the editors. A woman guide (born in California) was assigned to escort one group around. She said she wasn't Tokyo Rose: that was two other girls from Los Angeles. At the Imperial Palace one newsman got as far as the Emperor's foreign secretary...
Listeners to NBC's key Manhattan station, WEAF, one day last week heard Newscaster Don Goddard say: "... a rumor came bounding into the newsroom. Emperor Hirohito is one of those in Japan who has committed harakiri...
...Associated Press flash from Reims came over the radio-newsroom tickers at 9:35 a.m. Was it or wasn't it the starter's gun? The networks, ad libbing for dear life, decided that...
...Manhattan newsroom, Broadcaster Bob Trout roamed about with a portable microphone for seven hours, reading rapid-fire dispatches as they clacked in, letting his listeners hear the clack of the tickers, the excited shuffling of chairs...