Word: stringers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he wrote a fantasy on what the monkeys in the zoo thought of William Jennings Bryan's role in the great evolution debate. He wrote the first story on the sensational attempt to rescue Floyd Collins, trapped in a Kentucky cavern. In 1933 Howland became a stringer-correspondent for TIME, and a staff correspondent in 1940, when he opened TIME'S Atlanta news bureau...
...backgrounds, Buffalo-born Wilber draws heavily on his own experiences and on stories he has heard during his tours of duty on such papers as the old Buffalo Times (where he started as a copy boy), the Birmingham Age-Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Memphis Commercial Appeal, and as a stringer for Alaska's Ketchikan Chronicle and Anchorage Times...
...free-style record, and Jimmy McLane, who, as an Andover schoolboy of 17, became the 1948 Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle champion. Last week, after a lengthening string of victories over Marshall and McLane, Yale's newly elected Team Captain Moore, 20, finally kicked the "third-stringer" tag far into his own foamy wake...
...Stringer (n.) : Part-time correspondent...
Before an issue of TIME goes to press, a short may turn into a parmark (only to be outspaced later), a twin-bed position may be dummied, a stringer queried for a checking poin't, a widow picked up near the NA researchers' bullpen, and double trucks left bleeding in the gutter...