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...served just as well for Journalist Poliakoff's political forecasts, and Augur it has remained. In 14 years that by-line has come to mean as much as 22K inside a ring. Last week Vladimir Poliakoff chalked up the latest of a long series of coups: a clean scoop in the London Evening Standard on a draft of the coming Anglo-Italian treaty (see p. 22). Next morning's august London Times, which usually ignores lesser publications, had to eat humble pie by virtually lifting Augur's account. What made the pie harder to swallow...
Headed by captain Swisher Digit the team went thru a long drill which included scooping scotch and sodas out of highball glasses. Commenting on this, Coach Waters explained, "the scotch being heavier than water strengthens the finger muscles, and the depth of the glasses forces the boys to get their scoop strokes lower, an essential fundamental for high scoring...
Ootcher Y. Kootcher, self-styled "Hoist" reporter, looking for a scoop, was directed to the Mount Auburn Street obstruction for possible news. "There's nothing newsworthy there," he said gloomily. "I'll get in touch with the Obituary Department...
Lupe Called "Scoop...
Miss Velez, known as "Scoop" and an advocate of four love affairs before marriage, said of her own husband, who crashed the movies as Tarzan, "Although he doesn't do any tree-swinging around the house, he wears the pants in the family, and I'm proud of it. He's my favorite leading...