Word: squibbing
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...your Feb. 25 Miscellany squib about the disgruntled Reno meat packer who found it more profitable to work for OPS than for himself: do I detect here the first faint whisperings of the Great American Economic Revolution, when all merchants will work for OPS, all farmers for PMA, all vets for VA, ad infinitum, leaving only the decontrolled rattlesnake-meat canners and dinosaur-bone collectors to shift for themselves...
...Wright, in San Francisco, suggested a further breakdown: 1) the big, obvious news story, 2) the comprehensive situation story, with preparations made long in advance, 3) the local offbeat story which can grow out of a small newspaper squib, and 4) "the TIME type of exclusive, like a new business starting up, or a spectacular operation by a surgeon or troubles within some church parish . . . They are the news dividends of the week." Bill Johnson, in Dallas, checked back on his last 23 stories, found one originated with a press conference, one tip came from a press agent, seven from...
Five reporters cover the Annex for the world's newspapers. They are chosen by Radcliffe, they are responsible to Radcliffe and they are told not to print a two-inch squib until they clear it with Radcliffe...
...Then we dash off some little twirp of a squib that we're almost ashamed to print and we please or antagonize our clientele no end. You never know...
Twenty years ago a squib on the radio page of the old New York Evening World noted that "the story of a cloak-and-suit operator's climb from a dingy tenement to Park Avenue will be dramatized in the Rise of the Goldbergs . . ." With that feeble trumpet toot, the Goldberg family was off on a career that has included a run of 17 consecutive years on radio (only Amos 'n' Andy has run longer), a Broadway play and road company, a comic strip, vaudeville sketches and a television show...