Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nanking General Marshall had broken the news to Chiang (see FOREIGN NEWS). But only a very few in Washington had known that Jimmy Byrnes would quit; most assumed that he would go to Moscow in March. Then the New York Times's "Scotty" Reston got a hot tip and gave a strong hint (see PRESS). Soon a startled world learned that the U.S. had changed its Secretary of State for the fourth time in 26 months...
From one high-echelon friend, who was himself stepping down from a Government job, Scotty Reston got a big tip. In an artful story in Tuesday's Times, Reston passed it along without confirmation: "... some observers . . . believe [that] General Marshall may be asked to replace Mr. [Dean] Acheson with a view to succeeding Secretary Byrnes if, as has been reported, the latter also plans to retire...
...aped the best Hollywood techniques (and some of the worst) by switches from closeups to long shots to trick camera angles-and fadeouts with profiles turned to a corn-tinted sunset. He depends on Leo Ardavany, a neighbor who manages the movie house at nearby Haverstraw, to tip him off when a useful picture comes along...
Banana Pie. To husky, 17-year-old Richard C. Rowe of Denver, as to thousands of other U.S. college freshmen, the holiday held the feel of freedom, the warmth and excitement of homecoming. His mother had waited tip the night he got home from Park College at Parkville, Mo., and fed him banana cream pie. He had slept late, hurried off to meet other malted-milk topers at the Purity Creamery, and angle for holiday dates. On Christmas he would go to church, plough through a huge dinner, drive to a mountain cabin with his family to toast marshmallows over...
David Charnay was sitting in a midtown Manhattan spot last week, tending to his business (interviewing a Broadway character for the New York Daily News) when a friend phoned with a hot tip. There'd been a brawl over at La Conga and-guess who-Peggy Hopkins Joyce was mixed up in it. Reporter Charnay flagged his office and went after it. Rewrite Man Henry Lee got busy at the telephone. Next day their joint story-the kind of story only the Daily News could or would do-ran three columns, a sort of extra dividend that gave...