Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life. Bashir and camel were found by two reporters, collecting a load of firewood in a railway yard. The reporters hustled Bashir off to the editorial office of the morning Dawn, where he was feasted, quizzed, and kept virtual prisoner for 14 hours to assure the paper a scoop. Finally, at 2:30 a.m. he was permitted to return to his anxious wife and four children, little the wiser. Explained the confused Bashir: "I'm going soon by first-class airplane to England to meet King Johnson...
...Moscow by Conniff and Hearstling Joseph Kingsbury Smith (now publisher of Hearst's New York Journal-American), Bill Hearst suspiciously searched his rooms for hidden mikes, bucked the usual language difficulties (the waitress brought sheep's eyes when they ordered ice)-and managed to miss a scoop on the biggest story in town...
...Missed Scoop. After Bonn, Bill Hearst was admittedly bushed. "Another week at this rate, taxiing to and from airports," he confessed to "Editor's Report" readers, "and we'll all be qualified for pilots' wings. Or padded cells." But he slogged stubbornly on to audiences with two dictators: Salazar of Portugal and Franco of Spain. The Task Force was impressed by both men. "Today Spain and Portugal have comparatively flourishing economies," wrote Hearst. "You can walk the clean streets safely at night. Peace and prosperity prevail. And both countries are solidly in the ranks of the West...
Last week Newsday had a scoop of sorts in President Kennedy's reply. Newsday Editor and Publisher Alicia Patterson, who learned newspapering at the knee of her father, the late Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News (see below), took for granted that she would receive the courtesy of an answer. After all, she had supported Kennedy for president, while Alicia's husband, Harry Guggenheim, president of Newsday, voted for Nixon...
With the score 4 to 2 at the start of the second period, Woody Spruance scored on the backhand scoop shot he has perfected this year, and Harvard and Dartmouth twice traded goals to push the score to 6-4 at the end of the half...