Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scoop-the-Scoop...
...Scoop-of-the-week went to no London or New York paper, instead to the Des Moines (Iowa) Register whose Correspondent Harlan Miller beat Argentine censorship by innocently strolling into the Buenes Aires branch of Pan American Airways Inc. asking: "Can I use your phone?" A call from this discreet firm to an Iowa number roused no Argentine suspicions. Soon Mr. Miller was telling his editor about the fatal wedding breakfast, firing off other graphic scoop details which censorship held up for days...
...Sheik Scoop...
...took part in tong warfare, wrote an inside story of it. Along came Reporter Bruce Grant, who read the story, realized that it was an expose exciting and spectacular enough to appeal to underworld-minded readers, was the first authentic history of the tongs ever written, was a splendid scoop. He wrote Author Gong's manuscript into reportorial text. All Reporter Grant needed was a rewrite...
...clientele from the mass of U. S. readers: "The Business of Cricking," "Badminton Takes Hold," "Alligators for Sport," "The Scientific Sport of Bird Banding," "In Praise of the Bilgeboard Scow." In the May issue, with a display of pride such as attends an epochal event, The Sportsman presents its "scoop": complete data and sail plans of Sir Thomas Lipton's challenging Shamrock V and the four U. S. contenders for the honor of defending the America's Cup in September-material never before divulged in advance of the race...