Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington Newshawks Forrest Davis and Ernest K. Lindley unloosed a fat scoop last week. In the first of two articles in the Ladies' Home Journal, they reported the inside details of how war came to the U.S,, Some of the things Davis and Lindley had to tell...
...store on birth and money. This circumstance made ordinary Britons grumble and suspect that the Commandos were officered by undemocratic pantywaists. The lists of Commando officers did indeed include many a prewar playboy, many an old, famous and sometimes weary name. Among them were Author Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies, Scoop, Put Out More Flags), who had transferred from the Royal Marines; Sir Roger's son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, who last year died leading a Commando raid on Rommel's headquarters in Libya; Winston's son, Captain Randolph Churchill, who is on duty in the Middle East...
...cable editor criticized American censorship for its lack of organization or centralization of authority. Giving as an example one scoop from Australia, he told of the difficulty of giving accurate news when all stories must pass through the hands of army, navy, and Washington censors, all of whom may contradict each other...
...Scoop in New Caledonia. Meanwhile the United Nations, sure that if they could hold on to New Guinea's foothold they would have a jump-off place against the Jap, forestalled him in another south Pacific area. Washington announced that U.S. troops had landed in New Caledonia, a Free French island 700 miles east of Australia. It was a prize the Jap would have given a lot of men to take, for it lies athwart the lifeline from the U.S. to Down Under. It is also incredibly rich in minerals -No. 2 world producer of nickel...
Last week, as the Vanderbilt tournament progressed in tick-tock silence, it began to look as if Mrs. Sobel's sharp red nails would scoop in the most important championship of all. Playing with three young Manhattanites (Sam Fry Jr., Benedict Jarmel and 27-year-old George Rapee), her Cavendish Club team survived the qualifying rounds and knock-out matches (116 boards), came up to the final the favorite. The other finalist was the New York Bridge Whist Club (Lee Hazen, Richard L. Frey, S. M. Stayman...