Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scoop. In Miami, Newspaperman Forest Turnbull was kidnaped, robbed, left bound and gagged by two hoodlums who then called his paper, said they had a good story and told where to find...
Everybody in the room knew what Acheson was talking about. The week before, at a press conference on the China white paper (TIME, Aug. 15), the Secretary had been as short-tempered as a snapping turtle, and he had snapped at reporters who were cautiously double-checking to make sure they had their facts straight...
Composer Milhaud's tidy explanation: "A lady, an old friend of the family, brought me a little book of manuscript paper . . . from about the year 1840 . . . I like very much little antiques and I thought I shall use it ... I found there were eight staves on the paper. I thought it is not my plan to write an octet. I had thought to write quartets. And then I thought why should I not write two quartets in that little book and make an octet out of them...
...ceremonies the night before, when Appling tied the Rabbit's record, Maranville-was on hand to congratulate him, Senator Clyde Hoey of North Carolina (Appling's native state) made a speech, and the White Sox management presented him with an envelope containing a blank slip of paper, in lieu of a bonus check for an" unnamed amount which the management promised to pay him later. Luke celebrated the occasion by rapping out two hits in four times at bat and handling his three chances in the field perfectly. The White Sox won the game...
Last week the crown princess and her prince consort looked over their new domain in Washington. Bazy sat down with Editor-in-Chief Frank Waldrop, 43, one of the seven "faithful employees" who sold out to the Colonel after Cissy willed them the paper. She praised him for the way he was running the paper, and persuaded all seven to stay on for the present as hired hands. Cautiously refraining from throwing her 118 Ibs. around right away, Publisher Miller diplomatically announced that she planned to submit some of her columns to Editor Waldrop to "see if they...