Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he returned to Michigan in 1946 after his tour with the Eighth Airforce, Madar wasn't able to report for spring practice because a torn cartilage had to be removed from his knee. The operation was successful and in the fall, Elmer caught enough passes and blasted enough ball carriers to make almost every all-American first team listing...
...third period, another punt boomeranged on the Big Green, and Madar underlined his earlier "weak punt defense" comment. This was to be one of the key points in his final report...
...When the peace is settled in favor of Israel, as it certainly will be, the U. S. and Britain should lend all possible aid to the new state in the hope of building a strong, progressive nation. The one great hope for this course of action is in the report that President Truman has notified the British that the United States will no longer support any plan reversing the original U.N. partition of Palestine...
...turned in their regular Wednesday stints in advance, had struck the same note. Therefore, on election night, from London's Fleet Street to San Francisco's Market Street, newspaper hellboxes overflowed with type that was hastily dumped as the returns came in. (One groundless gossip-columnist report: that LIFE had to junk an issue with Dewey on the cover.) Not all caught themselves in time...
Even when they were confronted by the actual news that proved them wrong, some editors refused to believe it, or report it. The morning after the election, the face of the U.S. press wore a ludicrous look. The Republican Detroit Free Press, for example, put its final edition to bed at 3:30 a.m. At breakfast its readers heard on their radios that Truman was winning -and on Malcolm W. Bingay's editorial page, they read about the "Lame Duck President ... a game little fellow . . . who went down fighting with all he had . . ." Flanking the editorial were Drew Pearson...