Word: tipster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Edie's hard-hitting column often sounds libelous. But apparently she has the facts behind her strongest innuendos, because no one has ever sued. Yet she rarely checks an item. If someone gives her a wrong steer, she crosses the tipster's name off her list. She is more often in bad taste than in hot water. For syndication, Edie blue-pencils double-meaning quips and purely local items (sample kill: "A starlet is worried that her husband has been untrue. Her baby doesn't look a bit like...
...after nearly 43 years of marriage. They had been separated for the past three years; everything was pretty well arranged now, and there would probably be no shouting in the courtroom. Mrs. Mayer would get a cash settlement-much more, said her attorney, than the $2,000,000 one tipster guessed...
...Story is so far unverifiable. The Central Refugee Camp Administration does not know. Story is traceable to frontier station Tinglev, where its originator, local newspaper tipster, a railway clerk, says he got it from colleague who heard it Monday from still unidentified Danish policeman on refugee train who in turn was reporting narrative of another policeman who said Father Germania was on his train crossing the frontier fortnight...
Last week they got their money's worth. A tipster called the editors, whispered "There's some Greenwood men going to be charged with the murder of a nigger," and hung up. Four days later, after checking the lead through three Delta counties, Managing Editor Charles Pou ran it down, got it confirmed by Prosecuting Attorney Pat Barrett...
...newsmen telephoned for details from the West Coast, New York and other parts of the U.S., he purred that the prosecutor would be "back tomorrow" and would be glad to talk with them then. At week's end, the Morning Star was still holding a dollar for its tipster. He had not left his name...