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...around the city room of the Hearst Herald & Examiner, reporters told each other there was something funny about that fire.* When they had nothing more pressing to do, they hung around the neighborhood, asked questions. Last week the Herex, which has hung many a ring-around-the-rosy scoop on its dignified morning competitor, the Tribune, blazed forth with exclusive "confessions" from two poolroom loungers, Frank Kolesiak and Emil Guerrieri, that they started the fire because they were "insulted" by the janitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ring-Around-The-Rosy | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...State fire marshal assigned by Governor Horner. Suspect Guerrieri posed for the Herex front page tipping an empty gasoline can over an old towel, to show "How It Was Done." While the Tribune frantically pursued Governor Horner across the State by telephone, the Herex strung out its scoop for two long days, finally delivered its "prisoners" to State's Attorney Courtney's office on the third. Immediately, Kolesiak repudiated his Herex "confession," produced a witness to prove he was in a trolley car accident when the fire broke out. But most newsmen agreed the Herex had added another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ring-Around-The-Rosy | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...they are and to determine the boundaries of a fair serve (between the fault and pass line)-see diagram. Three walls are of concrete, the fourth is of wire netting to protect the spectators from a ball that travels 100 miles an hour. Object of the game is to scoop the ball (either in the air or on first bounce) as it bounds off the front wall, and, in a split second, return it so that it will be in a difficult position for the opposing player (or players) to catch. Points are scored in the same manner as tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Merry Festival | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Always interesting to aeronauts, scoop-up-&-drop mail service attracted the fancy of the 75th Congress, which directed the Post Office to call for last week's bids. Most popular scooping arrangement is a grapple hook dangling from the plane by a rope to catch another rope (with the mail sack attached) suspended between two posts. To deliver sacks without bursting them, experimenters have used nets, parachutes, hinged rods on the bottom of the sack which absorb the shock. The Post Office left the scooping method to the airlines, subject to approval by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Deadline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Scoop-Up Service | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...wish to congratulate you on your scoop over New Mexico newspapers; none having yet learned of Carrie Tingley's demise nor tardiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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