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...Scoop, One Dollar. Along Manila's streets, the stratospheric prices have already sprouted rows of cheap wood and tin shops amid the ruins. There, Filipinos and free-spending U.S. soldiers & sailors can buy a scoop of ice cream for $1 ; a pair of U.S.-made shoes for $120; a woman's dress of sleazy material for $35; or a Jap-made bicycle, which sold for $20 before...
...actress-daughter Eileen-known to her friends as Walda, known professionally as Toni Eden-pulled a surprise wedding on her usually alert father. The groom: William Lawless, 29, art-student son of a retired Boston motorman. Next day Winchell reported the event with characteristic aplomb: "First man to scoop Walter Winchell in a long time is William Lawless. . . .'' Two days later, father scooped son-in-law by announcing that daughter had decided to annul...
Surrender Scoop...
Since when has broken faith become gallantry, the glory of a scoop more important than fair play and international cooperation? And is freedom of the press (and radio), to be interpreted as license and deserving of praise...
...hours, Ed Kennedy had a scoop which the A.P. touted to the fullest. But, as his colleagues in Paris irately pointed out, it was a scoop that anyone might have had if he were willing to break his word. The New York Times's Drew Middleton cabled that it was "the most colossal 'snafu' in the history of the war. I am browned off, fed up, burned up and put out." Fifty-four correspondents at SHAEF signed an angry soo-word protest, calling Kennedy's action "the most disgraceful, deliberate and unethical double cross...