Word: scoopings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Scoop, One Dollar. Along Manila's streets, the stratospheric prices have already sprouted rows of cheap wood and tin shops amid the ruins. There, Filipinos and free-spending U.S. soldiers & sailors can buy a scoop of ice cream for $1 ; a pair of U.S.-made shoes for $120; a woman's dress of sleazy material for $35; or a Jap-made bicycle, which sold for $20 before...
...actress-daughter Eileen-known to her friends as Walda, known professionally as Toni Eden-pulled a surprise wedding on her usually alert father. The groom: William Lawless, 29, art-student son of a retired Boston motorman. Next day Winchell reported the event with characteristic aplomb: "First man to scoop Walter Winchell in a long time is William Lawless. . . .'' Two days later, father scooped son-in-law by announcing that daughter had decided to annul...
Surrender Scoop...
Since when has broken faith become gallantry, the glory of a scoop more important than fair play and international cooperation? And is freedom of the press (and radio), to be interpreted as license and deserving of praise...