Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MARCH OF TIME) is a scoop by a British UNRRA cameraman, Peter Hopkinson, who has made more intimate shots of Russian life than most foreigners manage to, and has succeeded in bringing his film out uncensored. There are revealing glimpses of plain Russians in the streets, in hospitals, in theaters, in churches, in schools, in orphanages. Some of the film's most interesting revelations are not breathless news, but are very convincing. Among the strong impressions left by this study of scores of faces: 1) Russians are bitterly poor but their fortitude evidently goes as deep as their poverty...
...first glance, TIME had come up with the biggest scoop in magazine history...
According to Variety, in a front-page "scoop" signed by Editor Abel Green, rich Marshall Field was waving his bankroll under Winchell's nose, to lure him away from Hearst and into the Chicago Sun, as Field had lured Cartoonist Milton Caniff from McCormick & Patterson. The bait: $200,000 a year, double Winchell's income from Hearst...
Just when the story seemed about to sag, enterprising journalism revived it. Desperate Reporter Desmond and the Chicago Tribune's Norma Browning got a scoop on Mee's moody diaries, by putt-putting out to the yacht in a launch and swiping them. The Daily News and Trib rushed juicy excerpts into print, and the press feverishly tracked down the sexy-looking women that Mee, as a PT boat skipper, had saluted with purple poesy and erotic prose. One (whom he called "Tirana") was a nightclub singer named Lorraine De Wood; the Daily News found her in Milwaukee...
...Burpee would take me off his list. Every year around" this time, he sends me a fancy seed catalogue. It's illustrated with pictures of pumpkins big as Cinderella's coach . . . lima beans so big that if Glenn Davis saw one he'd scoop it up and run for a touchdown. Each year I'm seduced...