Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assigned successively to the Times' Vienna and Geneva bureaus, and after a year on their cable desk in New York he was sent back to take charge of the Geneva office. Although he is now on an indefinite leave of absence, he has been transferred to the paper's Washington bureau...
...warm day last summer a New York World-Telegram rewrite man became slightly silly while reading a weather report, stuck a piece of paper in his typewriter and wrote: "Today is a nice day." This got into the paper, and next thing the Telegram's city room knew, people were calling up to offer congratulations. Since then the World-Telegram has run a gag story on the weather every two or three days, and they have become the big town's richest newspaper chuckle. Sample...
Author of most of the Telegram's weather stories is a thin, sharp-featured little man named Harry Allen Smith.* Raised in Huntington, Ind., he quit school after the eighth grade to work as a proofreader on the local paper, rose to write funeral notices, sports, a column. Smith saw the U. S. as an itinerant reporter, worked five years for United Press as a feature writer, landed on the Telegram three years ago. He once began an interview with Cinemactress Simone Simon thus: "Your reporter walked straight up to her, without so much as a hello, and tickled...
Last week the Times's, lawyers put the men who run the paper on the stand. Managing Editor James testified that the memorandum was "a joke" and the word "spies" referred only to "voluntary informants." Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, general manager of the Times, said that the paper had once had an espionage system but has eliminated it. Publisher Sulzberger admitted the Times had kept close watch on some of its employes, defended the practice as an effort "to avoid raising issues with the Guild." While he was on the stand Publisher Sulzberger took the opportunity of declaring himself...
Kindly, near-sighted Burns Mantle (News) is, at 65, the oldest of the news paper critics. Nationally known for his annual The Best Plays of 19-, he is often sound, almost always dull. His best advertisement is his trick of rating plays by stars. Tops (* * * *) he gave this season only to the revived Outward Bound...