Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Youngsters who have left-and some who remain-view the dispute as a matter of principle rather than grammar. In 1971 Reporter Joe Eszterhas was fired after writing an embarrassing satire for Evergreen Review on the Plain Dealer's handling of its scoop on the My Lai massacre photos. That caused ill will and became part of the continuing friction that defined itself in terms of both age and politics. Junior reporters began calling two older executives "Mad Dog" and "Snake," and were in turn referred to as "the Cong" and "the Revolutionaries." For a while management fretted over...
That first night of freedom at Clark, the men indulged in what one officer called "an orgy of eating"-liver smothered in onions, fried chicken, steaks. The prisoners did not select one meat or another but ate them all, then tore into the cornflakes, heaping salads and triple-scoop banana splits. At 3 a.m., one prisoner went back to the cafeteria and ate an entire loaf of bread, each slice thickly coated with butter...
Whatta Col. 5 scoop they got, oh boy oh boy." The Journal contracted for printing with a Cambridge paper, and came out regularly, six days a week, plus extras...
...changed every half year but the paper adopted a new, more open format. Photographs became more of a rule and less of an exception, and extras were no longer confined to football results. President Eliot's retirement brought not only its best extra to date, but also its biggest scoop. Only the President, Managing Editor, Business Manager, and printers knew that the patriarch of the Augustan Age of Harvard was stepping down until the extra hit the streets. The paper also had the best word the next year on the progress of Eliot's internal struggle over whether to accept...
Died. Roy Ruggles Johnson, 89, former newsman and radio broadcaster whose 1913 scoop for the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram exposed Jim Thorpe's minor fling in professional baseball, causing the athlete to lose his two 1912 Olympic gold medals; in Worcester...