Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were its only reader. So right were his news judgments that the wire services for many years telegraphed the Times's front-page news-play to clients for guidance. Some of Van Anda's news decisions are classic: he took a one-paragraph report that the steamship Titanic was in trouble, expanded it into columns of type-while other Manhattan papers played the story down, and at least one pooh-poohed the whole thing because the Titanic was "unsinkable." Van Anda perceived that General Ludendorffs big offensive on March 21, 1918 was the beginning...
Germans, wondering whatever has become of Adolf Hitler, were startled by an apparently pointless but planted paragraph in Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter. Headed The Man of Genius, it said...
...note in TIME [Nov. 27] an article which refers to the Gopher Ordnance Plant. We quote the following paragraph...
...White House announcement, published only three months after Stilwell had been made the Army's sixth four-star general,* was a crisp, close-mouthed paragraph. It gave no explanation of General Stilwell's unceremonious removal from his glamorous list of jobs as 1) Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; 2) Deputy to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. Commander in Chief of Allied Forces, Southeast Asia; 3) U.S. Commander of the China-Burma-India theater...
Chance in the Middle. But the local staff was weak. Page One was dull; the editorial page was stodgy. The first Knight ukase on the bulletin board: "Short leads and short sentences. No lead [opening paragraph] is to be more than three typewritten lines, two if possible." Chicago would get frequent samples of Knight's own "personal journalism": punchy editorials in short, snappy sentences. Knight writes a weekly "Publisher's Notebook" for all his papers...