Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vampire Horror. Mirror Editor Silves ter Bolam thought he had an exclusive angle, and took a chance to play it. On Page One, Bolam ran a three-column picture captioned: "Women Struggle to See Haigh Charged." Right next to it was a story headlined VAMPIRE HORROR IN LONDON. Its lurid tale...
British readers, who are used to the journalistic trick of printing two stories to get around the English law, got the point. So did Scotland Yard. It warned the Mirror and other London editors to watch what they were saying. Next day the Mirror took another chance; it told readers that the "vampire killer" -not identified-had been caught...
Roving Reporter Walter Davenport had never felt comfortable in the editor's chair at Collier's. Since he took over the job (TIME, July 22, 1946), "Davvy" hadn't written a line for the magazine. Last week Editor Davenport eased himself out of the chair and got ready to hit the road again as Collier's chief correspondent. In his place as the new editor stepped ex-Marine Captain Louis Ruppel, 45, veteran of Kwajalein and the Chicago newspaper wars...
...vetoed his idea and launched the first successful U.S. newspaper syndicate himself. In 1893, on $2,800 in profits from the syndicate and a borrowed stake, McClure started his magazine. At its peak in 1906, Steffens, Tarbell, and Baker walked out after an argument with the "mad genius," and took over the rival American Magazine...
...stony reminder that Mexico has been trying to digest imported culture since the days of Hernando Cortes, and has been having a continuous bellyache in the process. But inside the museum's marble halls last week, work men were uncrating the paintings of one Mexican who took Europe in his stride and came home to en rich his country with great art that it could call its own. His name: Diego Rivera. The crates in the Palace of Fine Arts held 500 pic tures ranging from the academic studies and cubist experiments of Rivera's student days...