Word: scoopings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pounded Dorothy Lamour's typewriter. He had special tips on Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Quisling-but for got to cable "Amalgamated Press" about it because he was snooping for bigger new. When the picture opens, Germany has just invaded Russia, and Hope is the only foreign correspondent who missed the scoop. He sent back word that it was all a nasty rumor. Amalgamated recalls him: fires him; and he spends the remaining reels exposing a nest of Gestapo agents in our nation's capital,--strictly in spite of himself...
...halt as gas and power run out and heavy snows fall; Leningrad becomes a ghostly metropolis without moving vehicles, and masses of people trudge silently through the snowy streets, dragging their burdens on small sleds. When the water system fails, they chop holes in the ice to scoop water out of the gutters. They line up daily in long queues for their dwindling food rations; each carries off an allotment of bread that barely covers the palm of his hand. In their heatless homes and factories they work, eat and sleep in greatcoats, gloves and hats...
Broadcaster Fiorello LaGuardia, who dearly loves a scoop, had a juicy one last week for listeners to his Italian language radio chat beamed to Italy. "I had a most interesting talk a few days ago concerning the war in Africa," purred the Mayor. Abruptly then he named the men with whom he said he had spoken-eight Italian generals and one air marshal. Properly dramatic, he saved the best name for last, throwing it in as an afterthought: hot-tempered General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, photogenic Black Shirt commander captured by the British in Libya two years ago this month...
...past eight weeks San Francisco has been lapping up a double-scoop, 15-act vaudeville show called Highlights of 1943. Its title is much the most up-to-date thing about it. Produced by Hollywood's fabulous cinemaestro, Sid Grauman, it offers, with crafty candor, the kind of variety show that was pulling them when Grauman left San Francisco 27 years ago. Headlined by Songstress Gertrude Niesen singing a batch of old songs, Highlights includes a trained-poodle act, harmonica players, highflying female aerialists, an impersonator, an oldtime clown, a Gay Nineties troupe, a ping-pong exhibition...
...Nieman Fellows are a group of journalistic students who were enticed away from their typewriters long enough to go down to the Indoor Athletic Building and scoop the labor men by a score of 28 to 20. Starring for the Union men were Ray Frisch another mad hatter, and "Two Way Stretch" Pfeffer from the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union. The outstanding players for the journalists were "Scooper" Ethridge, former college star, and "Copy...