Word: squibs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three articles appeared in the CRIMSON the Monday after Yaeger scored the 41st point in the Yale football game--one on the front page, one on the sports page, and a poem. "Give Thanks," in the editorial columns. However, Life gave the CRIMSON credit only for its brief Tuesday squib, and failed to mention the Monday write...
...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...