Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Margaret, 18, who has not been able to move on her Italian vacation without sending the local press into spasms of purple prose, drew support from home in her pleas for privacy. Said the London Times: "It would be a fair concession ... if a closed season were now agreed upon; and the Princess will return better for her holiday if she can be treated as a young woman quietly enjoying her first sight of an ancient land, and not as a peep show." Cracked the London News Chronicle: "Perhaps she is enjoying...
...busy, happy week for Carl McIntire. He had just published a new book (Modern Tower of Babel; Christian Beacon Press; $1.50) crammed to the covers with haymaker denunciations of his numerous enemies. He received word that two new denominations had voted to join his American Council of Christian Churches. But no less rewarding was the news that came from Madison, Wis. Before the Wisconsin Council of Churches, Theologian John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary had referred to some of McIntire's activities as "unscrupulous vilification." Exclaimed McIntire delightedly, "They're getting to be very conscious...
...week, a gunman jumped from a black sedan in upper Manhattan, pumped three slugs into a boss stevedore named Tom Collentine, and got away. Along New York City's 771 miles of crime-ridden waterfront, the murder sent only a ripple of excitement. Most of the New York press gave the killing a good play and then went on to other news. But not the New York Sun. It set a man to digging out the story behind the story. Last week stocky, hard-digging Reporter Malcolm Malone ("Mike") Johnson got a well-earned Pulitzer Prize* for his carefully...
...purpose," said Aunt Anita last week in a voice without a quaver, "is to help create a better world state. You have only to think of the need for this thing . . . look at the press of the world today . . ." Said Thackrey earnestly: "We are not going to lose money." But if he did there would be more where his grubstake came from...
Siragusa talked it over with his younger brother Dominic, 35, who runs Chicago's Molded Products Corp. For $90,000, Dominic had picked up a huge, 2,000-ton-pressure hydraulic molding press which had once stamped out shell casings...