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...learned his home town inside out. By the time he landed on the city desk, he was an authority on the city's clergymen and its bookies, its main streets and back alleys. As a young sports writer, he uncovered the 1919 Black Sox scandal, later got a scoop on the Lindbergh kidnaping ransom note. Unlike the city editors of fiction, he is full of sweet 'reasonableness with his admiring staff of "Reutlinger's Rats...
Leland Stowe, Raymond Clapper and Vincent Sheean found more comfortable quarters in town, but they had to stop at the hostel to learn what was going on, and to clear and file their dispatches. There was no such thing as a scoop; all the news came out of press conferences and censorship was drum-tight...
Having pulled off the scoop of the week, roly-poly A.P. Correspondent Eddy Gilmore set out to measure its effect. He buttonholed Muscovites in the street, asked each one how he liked Stalin's answers to Gilmore's questions about war & peace...
LIFE'S scoop on Churchill's secret war speeches caused a sensation in London. It was a scandal, huffed a sizable section of the London press. Were the words of a Prime Minister his own, or the property of the state? Cried the London Star: "Such a document [the speech explaining Singapore's fall] is historic. It will long be counted part of the very fabric and structure of our greatness. . . . Once the ban on publication had been lifted, it should have been made a state paper...
Wrecked Dredges. But the real problem was the restoration or replacement of Malaya's 126 dredges, which are used to scoop up alluvial deposits, where much tin is found. All of these machines, badly handled by the Japs, are in varying states of disrepair. Thirty-nine of them will have to be completely replaced, which will take two years. Of the rest, only 41 will be in operation by next August while the 46 others will not be back in service until June 1947. Thus it will be from three to four years before the industry hits its full...