Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military circuit is hard work, but scoop-nosed Comedian Hope thrives on it. One week he took the Military Police apart (a sure-fire routine for soldiers); next week, when he arrived at Camp Haan, the M.P.s threw him in the guardhouse. At Camp Roberts a distraught recruit whose girl in the Midwest had just returned his engagement ring asked Hope to say a word to her in his broadcast. Hope explained that that was against the FCC rules; but after the show he looked up the jilted soldier and put in a telephone call for him. With half...
This is an expose. This what PM calls an eye-witness story, a scoop on the Truth About Opera written by One Who Knows...
Harvard's very informal Jayvee team gave an extremely good account of itself against its organized rivals. Jock Elliott put the visitors ahead in the first period with a beautifully executed backhand scoop, but things looked Blue when Yale run up six straight goals...
...merits the Sun will now really have to scratch. Its character still fuzzy, dutiful rather than inspired in editorials, it has done nothing since its scoop of Pearl Harbor to attract attention. Chicago newsmen particularly shake their heads over the Sun's news sense. Example: it passed up a U.P. story on Wake Island to run its own H. R. Knickerbocker's story a day late...
Although the new draft will scoop up a huge number of draftees, the Army is signing up volunteers as fast as they come. The rush of enlistments that started with Pearl Harbor is still going strong this week...