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Hottest of hot stories in the U. S. Press was the Lindbergh kidnapping, murder, investigation and last week the arrest of the clam-mouthed Hauptmann (see p. 12). Any publisher would have given a year's profits for a complete scoop on the case. Certain Manhattan dailies even had men permanently assigned to the story, year in, year out. An ambitious Hearstling visited New Jersey State Police headquarters every week on his day off, patiently burrowing an inside track...
...daily doings of these five sisters will be as tiresomely commonplace as diving girls at Miami, Fascist youth on parade and rodeos are today. But last week there was no boredom in U. S. cinemansions as Pathe flashed on the screen what it proudly advertised as "Extra! World Scoop! Newsreel Sensation of the Year!" To get these first films of the Dionne quintuplets required bullying by Pathe President Courtland Smith, cajoling by Pathe News Editor Claude R. Collins, many a thousand Pathe dollars, a high and mighty appeal in the name of Science and History, and, most important...
...biggest scoop of the War occurred when a German deserter who had escaped into Holland fetched a bulky packet from under his coat and asked Captain Landau : "What is this worth to you?" Meekly the German accepted £100 for the latest edition of the German
...banks of the Danube. And in Germany he would see crops so poor that people must eat potatoes once thrown to the pigs. In Russia the roar of 140,000 tractors hastily harvesting a premature crop, the shrill cries of village children scampering after the reapers to scoop up lost heads of precious wheat, would drive the traveling locust on into Northern China. There he might get his wings soaked in torrents of crop-destroying rain, if he did not fly to Western China. There drought and the sun would drop him to earth at last, scorch him to death...
York Herald Tribune. Out hatched last week the year's final marks of sandy-haired Vassily Iosifovich Stalin, 12-year-old son of the Dictator. Cluck-clucking loudly at his private scoop Correspondent Barnes cabled that Vassily "has brought a report card home to the Kremlin which has failed to wreathe Joseph Stalin's face in smiles...