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...courthouse, the air was heavy with tension and tobacco smoke. Eight newsmen, chosen by lot, had gone to see the war criminals die. To kill time, the 60-odd correspondents who were left behind paced the floor restlessly, watched each other with guarded eyes, plotted how they might scoop the pool. The minutes and hours ticked by. Around the world, they knew, deadlines were coming & going, while editors stood impatiently over teletypes...
...chatty Boston Evening Journal offered its readers this one-paragraph scoop on the first full-dress demonstration of anesthesia. The show had been shrewdly staged by publicity-wise, 27-year-old Dentist William Thomas Green Morton and a Journal reporter named Albert Tenney. Dr. Morton's "preparation," fed to the patient through a tube from a corked flask, was ether, disguised with aromatic essences to hide the "secret." The operation, conducted by Dr. John Collins Warren, frock-coated chief surgeon of Massachusetts General Hospital, made a profound impression on doctors and medical students in the small, gloomy amphitheater. Cried...
...Werth was not permitted to file his story until Radio Moscow broadcast it. That put the -whole world press ahead of Werth's weekly paper (it has no connection with the daily London Times'), which had to wait five full days before printing his "scoop...
First she nicknamed him "Scoop"; then she named him Harve Bennett-because it sounded like a byline. Before he started school mother Kitty had taught him to recite by heart the names of all the U.S. presidents. When he was ten, she marched him down to Chicago's station WLS. For the next five years, Harve was a Quiz Kid, one of the best. He made more money (about $20,000) than any Kid except Dick Williams...
Pucci, handsome and impressive looking, gave visiting newsmen to understand that he was the only real pipeline to the Vatican. Whether he was or not, no one really knew and he frequently had information in advance of other sources; he did, in fact, scoop the world on the election of the last two Popes. But with the coming of war Pucci's stock fell. Soon he was reduced to supplying items to a handful of German and Jap newsmen in Rome. After liberation, new correspondents, who had never heard of him, began covering the Vatican as they would...