Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much perhaps as anyone else, Carr Vattel Van Anda made the New York Times the grey eminence it has become. Adolph Ochs set the goal: "All the News That's Fit to Print"; Van Anda got the news, saw that it was fit, and printed it. He treated the Versailles Treaty with the competitive zest of a tabloid editor covering a beautiful blonde's murder trial, used 24 telegraph and telephone lines to transmit the full text from Washington, and gave it 62 columns of type. No other U.S. newspaper ran it in full...
From such complete coverage stemmed much of the Times's stodginess, but Van Anda had worked on the New York Sun in the days of the great Charles A. Dana, and had watched the Sun go down because it cared more for fluff than fact. A fact man himself, "V.A." was quiet, modest, a hard worker. He spent every afternoon from 1 to 6 in the office, took four hours off for dinner and a nap; then at 10 he returned to bustle over the proofs, spot weaknesses, and stay until 5 a.m. to get all the news...
...long hall stood the Generalissimo in uniform. T. V. Soong, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, who usually wears a business suit, wore a Chinese gown. Other Chinese dignitaries flanked them. Two abreast, with Pat Hurley in the van, the Americans advanced toward the hall. At the entrance they bowed. Halfway down the hall they bowed again. Then they advanced 20 feet to the Generalissimo, bowed a third time...
Compulsory attendance at athletics will end for the winter term on Friday, February 9, Clarence B. Van Wyck, accrobary to the Department of Physical Education, announced yesterday. With the date for the opening of the final examination period set by the College for Wednesday, February 14, the Athletic Department has decided to require attendance up to the final week...
...Seconds Over Tokyo (Van Johnson, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker; TIME...