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...World's "scoop" seemed to be based upon the following facts: ¶ That the Rumanian Monarchs are to visit London during the London season...
...News' first great scoop was the nomination of Hayes...
...public eye, there were places and needs for a multiplicity of newspapers. The world, figuratively speaking was much larger from the point of view of communication, and the profession was still so young that methods and means were not yet hardened to a universal mould. One paper could scoop another by stealing its railway engine and the Herald could startle the journalistic circle from top to bottom by publishing an interview with John Brown as he lay wounded in the jail at Barper's Ferry...
Manuel Herrick, whilom Congressman from Oklahoma: "Jilted by Miss Ethelyn Chrane, I demanded $50,000 heart balm. In answering this suit Miss Chrane told the Court I had proposed to marry her secretly and later sell the ' scoop' to newspapers. She said that after she promised to marry me my personality and habits became exceedingly distasteful, and eventually so obnoxious that I was unendurable...
...year"-the tests being accuracy, terseness and " the accomplishment of some public good." The prizes were recently awarded for 1922. The " best reporter," however, did not expose a great graft ring, did not describe a great national catastrophe, did not report a momentous political event, made no great " scoop." What he reported was a convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Cambridge, Mass, (last December). The man was Alva Johnston, then with The New York Times, now with The New York Herald...