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...editors of the NR boasted of a scoop. Chiefly responsible for it is the NR's nervous, grey-thatched Treasurer Daniel Mebane, a good friend of Earl's brother Bill who was onetime president and business manager of the Communist Daily Worker. When Earl Browder returned from his mysterious mission to Moscow (TIME, July 8), Earl and NR Editor Bruce Bliven went into a huddle. Bliven outlined a series of controversial subjects Browder might write about, some of them designed to indicate what Browder was up to. Browder crossed out all the tough ones, agreed to write about...
...year-if true. Never in U.S. history had a President told Supreme Court justices to get out. The story even named the four justices: Black, Jackson, Frankfurter and Murphy. To devoted News and Times-Herald readers, it looked like the straight dope. To newsmen, it did not: the "scoop" was signed by poison-penman Columnist John O'Donnell...
Remington and associated Hearstlings improved their Cuban idleness with one of the decade's most lurid yarns: the story of how three young Cuban women were stripped and searched by Spanish police aboard a U.S. steamship in Havana harbor. Remington did the revealing illustration. It was a scoop until the rival Pulitzer press made it equally famous as a hoax...
...Happy Returns. Broadway had been the brighter for revivals. The newly organized Theatre, Inc. (which played host to the Old Vic) had started Shaw's Pygmalion on its longest run; and Katharine Cornell had for the fourth time shined up Shaw's Candida. There was a double scoop of Shakespeare, too: Maurice Evans' brisk G.I. Hamlet and an agreeable Winter's Tale...
...battle of Caen while the British outnumbered the enemy. He dismissed the Ingersoll version of the battle of the Ardennes, "which represents Montgomery as panicking and screaming ... as putting the British Army into full retreat, as nearly losing the battle by abandoning the offensive . . . and finally as trying to scoop all the credit for himself...