Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...page boy at the Kansas City convention of 1900, 16-year-old Harry joined full-throat in the bedlam when William Jennings Bryan ("He was one of my heroes") stampeded his second convention with his silver-tongued, silver-oriented (16 oz. of silver to 1 oz. of gold) oratory. In 1924, then a member of the Jackson County Court under the auspices of hard-knuckled Democrat Boss Tom Pendergast, Politician Truman sat with ears growing numb under his crystal-set earphones. He listened to almost every word of the 14-day, 103 -ballot convention in Madison Square Garden (Alabama...
...with 1,240 words on the disaster already in the paper, the Times really started moving. By 7:30 a.m., rolling out its fifth and final edition of the day, the Times had 5,000 words on it; six stories, besides a sharp, authoritative lead, were on the front page alone...
...Sound of Awe. Shocked and sad dened, the Times added an obituary to its growing list of assignments for next-day's paper. By the time the story was buttoned up, the Times had 20,000 words spread across seven pages. Almost its entire front page was devoted to the shipwreck, with three pictures of the sinking Andrea Doria and the wounded Stockholm. For the lead, the Times called on Pulitzer-Prizewinner Meyer Berger, who had sat at his desk all day stitching together fragments from Times reporters, wire copy and the ship lines. His story spread across four...
...private lives of the Presidium bosses and their personal disagreements with one another. Says the Times's Welles Hangen: "Soviet censorship is becoming less severe, but it remains arbitrary and capricious." For example, when the ouster of Internal Affairs Minister Sergei Kruglov was revealed in a back-page item in Pravda, the Times bureau filed a story at 6 a.m. labeling Kruglov's successor as a Khrushchev man. It passed. That afternoon Hangen wrote a second-day story elaborating on the same theme. It was killed...
...Herald & Express (circ. 350,270); of cancer; in Los Angeles. A specialist in blood-red journalism, he began reporting in 1899 for the San Francisco Chronicle, once scooped Rival Reporter Jack London by fishing a murder victim's head out of the bay and having it photographed for Page One. He joined the Los Angeles Herald in 1911 as city editor, was managing editor of the merged Herald & Express from 1933 until his retirement...