Word: scoopings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week John B. Gambling celebrated his 15th year on the air. As far as most radio men could figure, his was the oldest daily program still on the books. And, as anniversary luck would have it, John B. was able to treat his waking audience to the news scoop of the week-the first word of the incoming Queen Elizabeth. From an Eastern Air Lines plane, MBS Newscaster Dave Driscoll spotted the Queen Elizabeth at 6:52 a.m. E.S.T. At 7:17 Driscoll was radiophoning a description of her over John B.'s program. When Driscoll had about...
Grey and murky dawned Monday, March 4, in Washington, seventh anniversary of the New Deal-seven years since the miserable, slushy day he rode, face grave, to the Inauguration ceremonies beside haggard Herbert Hoover. In mufti-no sugar-scoop coat-trailed by his secretariat, he drove around Lafayette Square to the buff-stucco Church of the Presidents, old St. John's (Episcopal). Surrounded by officialdom, Wife Eleanor, Mother Sara, he sat solemnly through an anniversary service. Presiding in the chancel was robust, 83-year-old Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody,* Groton School headmaster, who has given diplomas to Franklin Roosevelt...
...Douglas B. Cornell, Associated Press; Tom Reynolds, United Press; George Durno, Inter national News Service. - First reported in the New York Times on April 28 as a "scoop" by Columnist Arthur Krock...