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...WORLD SCOOP, blared a Page One banner headline announcing Mailman Noel Barber's series on "a war nobody knows about." To gather the "whole wicked story" in Tibet, Barber (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and Fellow Mail Correspondent Ralph Izzard trekked 200 miles along the rugged Nepal-Tibet border with four Sherpa guides and 40 coolies, who carried their six tents, snow boots, whisky, double-lined sleeping bags, tinned food, drugs and 4,000 French cigarettes. For serious Tibet experts, Barber's panting prose about the guerrilla warfare between Chinese Communists and Tibetan warriors brought guffaws. But then Adventurer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Helping It Happen | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...Scoop. In Morristown, N.J., a headline in the Record called attention to a trend: MARRIAGES WANE, BIRTHS FOLLOW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...must have been crazy," said the prince. But the Sketch was a little kinder than that. Laying out a second-page black-bordered mass obituary, it paid homage to its own enterprise. "This," mourned Editor Herbert Gunn, "was the end of a scoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of a Scoop | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...mountainous (6 ft. 8 in., 265 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, checked into a Montgomery hospital for treatment. Lumbering soon after her was Kissin' Jim himself, who sagged into a bed and summoned an old friend, Montgomery Advertiser Editor Grover Hall, for a hot scoop. The gubernatorial secret: although father of five by Jamelle (plus two by his late first wife, Sarah), sympathetic Big Jim gets morning sickness every time the lady of the house does. "Damn right," groaned he. Even liquor wouldn't cure this attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...regulation of labor unions ("My stand on labor bosses is damn popular"), polled 136,000 votes, about 100,000 more than anyone expected him to get, set starved Washington Republicans hollering, that Bill Bantz was their white hope for the future. But it looks like a distant future: "Scoop" Jackson, running against admittedly feeble party competition, took every county, grossed 320,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: Scattered Straws | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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