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...KENPER cable last week packed cocky, capable J. Wes Gallagher, 33, head of A.P.'s invasion staff, off to Germany to head a star-studded bureau. Gallagher has been acting Paris bureau chief ever since Edward J. Kennedy was disaccredited by the Army for his V-E scoop. Under Gallagher in Berlin will be three Pulitzer Prize winners: Louis Lochner, prewar head of A.P.'s Berlin bureau; Daniel de Luce, wartime Balkans expert; gadabout Laurence ("Larry") Allen, who learned about Germans in Axis prison camps...
...crack A.P.man went no Cooper command. Ed ("Scoop") Kennedy, European expert for 10 years until his SHAEF trouble, is still on "vacation...
...newspaper hit the streets with the phony flash. But radio had destroyed the few minutes' leeway that wire associations once had to retrieve their errors. So long as scoop-happy radio stations shot from the hip, wire services had to be triply careful what crossed their wires...
Howey, who rang the bell with his Iroquois Theater fire scoop (1903) and turned Chicago newspaperdom on its ear by his banner-lined blasting of thieving politicos, has quieted down since the old raw-meat days. In recent years he has been running Hearst's dreary Boston tabloids, the Record and American, in quiet, nice-old-boy fashion. So while some of his greying onetime minions like Burton Rascoe and Charlie MacArthur may have felt a twinge of nostalgia, they could not have been surprised to hear that mellowing Walter Howey's first move on the Sunday-supplement...
Although he has never quite lived down his four-day jumping the gun on World War I's armistice, and has sometimes looked funny trying to scoop his local reporters on fires and auto accidents, Roy Howard has scored high with such stories as his interviews with Russia's Stalin and Japan's Hirohito. An incurable romantic about newspapering, he now seemed to be seeing the war from a pretty special angle. He watched battle reports come in, wrote that it was "strongly suggestive of covering returns at police headquarters on election night or collecting the details...