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...name which chiefly emerged from the Windsor & Simpson Story-of-the-Year with credit was the name of William Randolph Hearst. There have been only two real Simpson scoops and Mr, Hearst personally scored Scoop No. i when he learned in England from King Edward that His Majesty was not just fooling around but was firm in his resolve to marry (TIME, Nov. 2). Scoop No. 2 is under stood to have been secured for Mr. Hearst by Miss Marion Davies in transatlantic conversation with her friend Mrs. Ernest Simpson. This scoop was the information that, while Edward VIII...
...Only a scoop by the New York Times set newshawks on the track, caused the mislaid letter to be found next...
...Wedding Present" Cary Grant and Joan Bennett again prove that they are a good team. It is a highly-recommended picture. The action revolves about two star reporters trying to scoop each other. Paramount drags in the stock Hollywood conception of a newspaper: there is the hard-boiled city editor, played by George Bancroft and there is the constant occurrence of three alarm fires and murders attended by cynical, wise-cracking reporters. What distinguishes the movie is the sure, smart acting of Bennett and Grant...
Arthur Krock, chief of the New York Times Washington bureau, last week thought he had a scoop. Saving it for an edition of the Times too late for other papers to copy, he broke the news that Franklin Roosevelt was "seriously considering," if and when reelected, calling another world conference. Those to be invited: Britain's Edward VIII, Russia's Stalin, Italy's Mussolini, Germany's Hitler, France's Lebrun, tiptop representatives Japan and China, "a few others." Their object: to discuss Disarmament and Peace without any diplomatic folderol...
...will go as high as $2,500 for a broadcast by someone like Maurice Chevalier. Best thing done by B. B. C. is the production of radio drama. News bulletins are supplied by Reuter, Exchange Telegraph Co., Press Association and Central News. When B. B. C. got a scoop on the announcement of the Duke of Gloucester's engagement (TIME, Nov. 11). the Press yowled so loudly that everyone concerned agreed that such a thing should never happen again...