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Word: scoopster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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...third biggest. (The rest is distributed throughout the chain.) But neither aspires to be a dictator. To almost everyone in the company they are "Bob" and "Roy" (Howard particularly feels embarrassment at being "mistered"). Of the two Roy Howard, as everyone knows, is the dyed-in-wool reporter, the scoopster, the man who wants to be where everything is going on-and is. (Last week he returned from a holiday in Havana. Scripps was at his Ridgefield, Conn, estate named "Kinderwall"-"Woods of the Little Children.") Howard is the more inventive; Scripps is the balance wheel that keeps him from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scripps-Howard | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

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