Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the week's exegesis was built. It was written by bespectacled Lauren D. ("Deac") Lyman, who as the Times' aviation editor befriended obscure young Aviator Lindbergh before his flight to Paris in 1927. Throughout the week Reporter Lyman stoutly refused to reveal the source of his scoop. But Colonel Lindbergh's hatred of certain sensational newspapers, and his corresponding affection for the courteous Times, have long been well-known. Therefore Newshawk Lyman's statements could reasonably be accepted as authentic, possibly firsthand...
...keeping with the Times' policy of protecting Hero Lindbergh's privacy, Reporter Lyman weakened his otherwise first-rate scoop by failing to disclose the time and place of the Lindberghs' sailing, their ship's name, their exact destination. But he did state flatly the following facts...
...Herald & Examiner, the pictures represented a notable scoop. City Editor John Dienhart had long had a standing order from hard-boiled Managing Editor Victor Watson for an electrocution picture. To the execution of Murderer Thompson he sent tall, personable Cameraman William Vandivert, with a candid camera concealed in the crotch of his trousers. Squatting on the floor in front of some 50 standing and kneeling witnesses behind a wire-mesh glass partition, Vandivert caught the writhing body, the contorted hands, the black-hooded face of Gerald Thompson, won for himself a small bonus, a smaller raise...
...Congressman from Franklin Roosevelt's own Dutchess County, Ham Fish has long yearned to oust his neighbor from the White House. Returning from a nationwide, 50-speech speaking tour, last week he "informally" announced to the Hearst Press that he was an aspirant for the GOPresidential nomination, a scoop which made news in Washington only to hermits. Aglow with political imagination, he also released a non-partisan slate from which, if nominated and elected, he planned to. draw his Cabinet. Some selections...
...last week the alert New York Evening Journal beat its rivals to the street by more than one hour with pictures of Sophie Crempa's funeral (see p. 16). Because an hour is more than 60 minutes-as time is reckoned by afternoon newspapers, the Journal's scoop was noteworthy. Its secret was to be found on the roof of the huge East River plant which houses both of William Randolph Hearst's New York newspapers...