Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spot News. Black-haired "Barney" Kilgore arrived fresh from college, like most Journal men, and has never worked for any other paper. As an editor, he put a new kind of news into the Journal: the chatty, informative Page One "leaders" that look like spot news, but aren't. They may range (as they did last week) from trends in turkey-farming to the prospects for Paramount Pictures, and are often the work of many days and many men. "It doesn't have to be news today for us to think it's news," says Executive Editor...
...considered the station's silence worth paying for. When WKYW signs off for the night, an announcer now says: "The next eleven hours of silence are sponsored by the Logan Co., makers of the famous Sleep Haven Mattress. . . . Good night-and good rest." Price of the smart spot announcement: just $6 a night...
...world's most thoroughly Christianized spot, believe it or not, is probably the Fiji Islands. Said Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Pitney Van Dusen last week: "Ninetynine percent of the Fijis' ex-cannibals have become Christians-and they are free from the influence of movies, radio, liquor and prostitution. I don't believe any other country today could show the same proportion of professing Christians...
...disease carriers, are just as dangerous to the tick picker who pops them as to the victim whose blood they suck. The male is flatter, smaller, less greedy. When he is sated, he noses around the host until he finds a feeding female, mates with her on the spot, moves away to start all over again. When the female is completely engorged, she drops off, finds herself a cranny to lay her eggs in (5,000 at a time), and begins the cycle once more...
...Signed) "Head Chief Duck Chief, L. Many Bears, Paul Little Walker, Ben Calf Robe [Blackfoot tribe]; Chief Enos Hunter, Chief David Bearspaw, Jacob Twoyoungmen, Councilors Isaac Two-youngmen, John Powderface, Tom Kaquitts [Stoney tribe]; Councilors Judas Hunter, Jonas Rider; David Crowchild, Eddie One Spot, George Runner [Sarcee tribe...