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...whole Northwest claims Brobdingnagian Lumberjack Paul Bunyan, mightiest of loggers, and his blue ox Babe. Together they dug Puget Sound in less than three weeks, using a glacier as a scoop. Paul Bunyan invented the double-bladed ax so that he could fell a tree on every backswing. His grindstone, which he made himself, "was so large that every time it made a single revolution it was pay day." His achievements and appetites were in proportion...
...Scoop-the-Scoop...
Last week the 'Chicago Herald & Ex- aminer thought it had a scoop when it was able to report, in a copyrighted story, that Rogers Hornsby would succeed Joseph McCarthy as manager of the Chicago "Cubs." Annoyed was the Hearstpaper when the Tribune's radiostation WGN denied the report, scooped-the-scoop. More irritated was the Herald & Examiner when, next day, the Tribune carried a copyrighted confirmation of the change of management. Bitterly editorialized the Herald & Examiner: "This is probably the first known instance in which a copyrighted story has been denied and then re-copyrighted by the publication...
...Scoop-of-the-week went to no London or New York paper, instead to the Des Moines (Iowa) Register whose Correspondent Harlan Miller beat Argentine censorship by innocently strolling into the Buenes Aires branch of Pan American Airways Inc. asking: "Can I use your phone?" A call from this discreet firm to an Iowa number roused no Argentine suspicions. Soon Mr. Miller was telling his editor about the fatal wedding breakfast, firing off other graphic scoop details which censorship held up for days...
...Sheik Scoop...