Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political reception. For four days last week a steady stream of visitors trooped through the St. James, bubbling with optimism. National Committeeman Lew Wentz, an old friend, predicted that most of Oklahoma's 20 convention votes would go to Dewey. Two delegates drove 300 miles from Dallas to report that they were making progress against Bob Taft's forces in Texas. An Arkansas delegation arrived, conferred, departed with the announcement: "It could be arranged for Dewey to carry the delegation." With an eye out for future favors they added: "But it would take some maneuvering...
...chosen people (which they believe themselves to be), the Mormons think they have a direct line of communication to the Almighty. In the church's turbulent early years its leaders were able to report direct and literal heavenly guidance on even such mundane subjects as Illinois real estate. But a divine revelation in 1947 would amaze no man more than Mormonism's tall, white-bearded, 77-year-old President George Albert Smith, seventh successor to the prophet Joseph Smith, and the mortal instrument through which a heavenly message would be received...
Warden W. G. Worthy strode toward the knot of convicts, gun in hand. There was a single report from his .38-cal. revolver, then the roar of four shotguns in the hands of prison guards. Convicts scattered frantically, flopping to the ground, diving under the buildings for cover. One made the barbed-wire-topped fence before a cursing guard, kicking loose a jam in his weapon, blasted him down with a load of buckshot...
During a trip to Spain, TIME Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker turned from the depressing political situation to matters of life & death in the afternoon. His report on the state of Spanish bullfighting...
...with a force of 200 million to 400 million electron volts, the cyclotron has almost ten times the power of the most potent cyclotron previously known (also at Cal).* At an American Physical Society meeting at Stanford last week, Physicists Glenn T. Seaborg and Isadore Perlman made the first report on what they and their California teammates, who work under the sponsorship of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, had accomplished...