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...peace news? At bars where newsmen gather, pinning the blame will be a soul-searching pastime for years to come. But that miscarriage of news and the possibilities of similar miscarriages posed a bigger problem than the morals of the Associated Press's Ed-ward Kennedy, whose "scoop" went sour...
Then came the details, dictated slowly and carefully. Dark-haired, alert, Brooklyn-born Edward Kennedy, 39, chief of A.P. war coverage in Europe, had the scoop of a lifetime. Midway in his story, the telephone connection faded...
Hanging around City Hall, he got to know local politicians. One of his heroes was William Alden Smith, an old-fashioned politico with a sugar-scoop coat and flowing black bow tie, who was soon to become U.S. Senator. In 1907, Smith bought the Herald. The morning after his purchase he walked into the office and found young Arthur Vandenberg sitting in the editor's chair. "I'm here to stay," said Reporter Vandenberg. He stayed - for 21 years...
...that stories cleared elsewhere, published, and therefore no longer involved in "military security" still could not be sent from SHAEF. Last week, SHAEF meted out the strongest punishment since D-day to a censorship violator: it canceled the credentials of BBC Correspondent Cyril Ray, who had an eleven-hour "scoop" on one story by simply bypassing censorship...
...from birth, the magazine has been in the thick of the hurly-burly of U.S. invention. Through its Manhattan editorial office trooped Morse, Gatling, the Maxim brothers, Edison, many another great inventor. Scientific American used to maintain a patent advice agency which, besides giving the magazine many a news scoop, presided benevolently over inventors, encouraging the sincere, diligently exposing the fakers. (Typical case: a "perpetual motion" machine which baffled everybody until Scientific American's editors X-rayed it, discovered inside a clocklike apparatus which could be wound by key through a simulated worm-hole...