Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Kansas Citians, not just "some," hope and pray that we'll have another daily paper here before very long...
...next day Dozier learned that his story for TIME had been killed in its entirety. The Government had imposed a tight censorship on all communications-except for unaccountable slip-ups like Correspondent Mac Johnson's prearranged daily telephone call from his paper, the New York Herald Tribune. The call came through on schedule the first night of the insurrection and, with Dozier holding a candle for him to read by, Johnson got off a first-person account before the error was discovered...
...State University of Iowa, his father went broke in the postwar crash of land prices. Gallup made his own way with a towel service in the college locker room, later as editor of the Daily lowan. He transformed the lowan from a routine college puff sheet into a paper with national news. He began to get interested in why people read certain stories-and how many and which ones they actually do read. After graduation he stayed on at Iowa as a graduate student in psychology...
Unplugged. Connors is an ex-jailbird. An ex-hot check passer and panhandler, he now & then augmented his income by filching nickels from telephone coinboxes. He would stuff toilet paper into the return slot, wait a couple of hours, then unplug the jackpot. He has spent over a year in jail...
...Russians, at least, it appeared likely that U.N.'s Assembly would create a trusteeship-on paper-and hand the problem to U.N.'s underworked Trusteeship Council: the Russians suddenly decided to take their seat on that Council, after boycotting it for 13 months...