Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshall Field's quiet Chicago Sun and shrill New York PM were cooing over another London scoop: Kuh had cabled the story of Bulgaria's peace terms a good twelve hours before his competitors came across the story. It is beginning to be news when Kuh is not ahead of a major European story by hours, if not by days. His recent record: the time, scene and dramatis personae of the Hull-Eden-Molotov Moscow conference, some three weeks before it was announced; Italy's surrender, four days before it happened; the basic Allied conditions for peace...
Onetime newsreel cameraman-Larry O'Reilly, first U.S. studio photographer to cover the Highway, brought home and boiled down some 30,000 ft. of scoop. His honest excitement both on location and in the cutting room give the film its crisp, uncommon energy. Most notable is O'Reilly's success in depicting two essential opposites simultaneously: 1) the obstinate, difficult bucking of tremendous obstacles (mud, wilderness, green crews who had to be trained on the spot); 2) continuous, violent, swift movement northwards (with the camera leaping from planes to trucks to trains to boats to bulldozers...
...news scoop, the News Chronicle's scolding had a certain cold-muttonish quality. It would have carried more validity many months ago, when U.S. soldiers first arrived in the United Kingdom, and the Tommies certainly found them too cocky, too well-heeled, too fresh with the girls...
...here, men. I want you to get in there and WRITE." And this week's scoop will make it worth your while or my Radar ain't reflectin...
...Said Missouri's neat, grey Harry S. Truman: "Tremendous sums of money are simply being thrown away with a scoop shovel. . . . [The Army & Navy] know how to waste money better than any other organizations I have ever had anything to do with...