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With vague longings to be a writer, Dorothy sailed to England in 1920, became a reporter when International News Service signed her to cover a Zionist conference in London. For the next eight years, she matched wits with the sharpest scoop hounds in Europe-Gunther, Floyd Gibbons, Walter Duranty. She covered a Polish coup d'etat in evening dress, with the help of $500 lent her by Sigmund Freud. With verve and clarity, she analyzed the mood of Depression-hit Germany. But her best-known bit of punditry was also her worst: in 1932 she produced a book...
...output and estimated future needs are top secret, neither side in the dispute could lay out its case for the public to judge. But Joint Committee members considered the evidence so overwhelming that they found the Administration stand "a great mystery," as Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson put it. Actually, there was no mystery: faced with an embarrassingly huge deficit in fiscal 1959, the Budget Bureau wanted to postpone a third reactor until the need was unmistakably obvious...
...Snedden paced the Senate and House office buildings, flipping through 3-by-5 cards printed with summaries of legislators' stands on the bill, fed data to pro-Alaska Senators, whipped up answers to every possible objection to statehood. His influence was everywhere. When Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson momentarily flagged in his zeal for statehood, he was spurred on by eight Washington editors who had been spurred on by Snedden. "You start off with something as a hobby," says Snedden. "Pretty soon it's an avocation. And then it's an obsession...
Kudos to TIME for its scoop interview with Bernard Goldfine and the meaty story on Sherman Adams. It is obvious that the Eisenhower Administration never again will be able to pull the vicuña over the people's eyes about its moral rectitude...
...child is merely precocious, but the parents are nearly psychotic. Jordan's first service to her mistress is to scoop up the razor blade with which suicide-bent Elise French has slashed her wrist. Seems that Elise suffers from bottle fatigue (too much vodka) and pencil-envy. She pines for the days when she used to turn out some of the top publicity copy on Madison Avenue. Hubby Carter is a $100,000-a-year magazine publisher and as full of answers as an IBM machine, except that he never asks himself the right questions about his wife...