Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adlai Could . . . Hammering home its point, the Bailey paper says that in 1952 Catholic voters "went approximately one out of two for the Republican candidate, whereas in 1948 they had gone two out of three for the Democratic nominee . . . Approximately 30% of these Catholics for Eisenhower were 'shifters'-that is, even on the basis of 1948, when the Catholic vote was already slipping away from the Democrats (the Republicans carried New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan and Maryland), they would have been expected to vote Democratic in 1952. These shifters-whom we shall call 'normally Democratic...
Beyond its obvious implication that a Catholic on the ticket would have helped in 1952, Bailey's paper does not attempt to assign reasons for Stevenson's relatively poor showing among Catholics. Few Democrats believe that Stevenson's divorce lost him any substantial number of Catholic votes. But most Catholic Democratic leaders believe that the general charges of Democratic "softness toward Communism" were especially effective among Catholics. Since those charges are sure to be revived in 1956 to a greater or lesser degree, many a Democrat stands with John Bailey in the belief that a Catholic vice...
...when Times editors, working with scattered wireless reports, scooped the world, there were no great news beats this time. At 12:34 a.m. Associated Press sent out the first bulletin, and the first radio bulletins followed soon after with the barest facts. By 2:30 a.m. every Manhattan morning paper-the Times, the Herald Tribune, the News, the Mirror-was on the street with bulletins and sketchy stories. The A.P. alone had 35 men on the story by 7 a.m., wirephotoed its first aerial pictures of the stricken ships by 8:35 a.m., fully 90 minutes before rival United Press...
...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...