Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the courtroom doors were to be locked during the verdict formalities, the A. P. man in the courtroom carried a brief case containing a short-wave transmitter just powerful enough to flash buzz signals to a telegraph operator upstairs in the courthouse. Locked in his tiny room in the cupola, at 10:29 p. m. the operator heard four sharp buzzes in his earphones, leaped to his key. By A. P. code, four buzzes meant "Guilty-recommendation mercy-life imprisonment." Over the A. P. wires to 1.200 member newspapers and to Press-Radio bureau for broadcast went the flash...
What the A. P. did not know was that among the 400-odd newshawks in the courtroom, each with his own bag of tricks, another had chosen the same device. The New York Daily News man carried a small overnight bag containing a short-wave transmitter. As the jury entered the courtroom, the News man stealthily touched his radio button four times-the News's code signal for jury-entry. That was the signal that flashed from courtroom to cupola to press-rooms and microphones...
Author Vanderbilt (now 36) bade a tentative farewell to Fifth Avenue some years ago, when, against the advice and consent of his family, he first tried to become a newshawk and turned out to be a decoy. Like an ocean traveler on a slowly departing liner, he continues to wave good-by long after the shore crowd's handkerchiefs are dry. Farewell to Fifth Avemie rehashes, in pseudo-Northcliffe journalese, the high spots of Author Vanderbilt's career as poor little rich boy. Vanderbilt readers may find it annoying; to non-Vanderbilts it will seem either shocking...
...henhouse in the quiet Ozark village of Couch, Mo. (pop. 59) last week, Mrs. Henry Bennett found an egg imprinted with the phrase: "Here my word 35." Viewing this as a religious portent, Mrs. Bennett told her neighbors about it. A wave of excited piety overtook Couch. To Mrs. Bennett's home went visitor after visitor, to emit fervent prayers. When, in a fit of devout jitters, a female preacher dropped the egg and broke it, Mrs. Bennett succeeded in gluing enough pieces on another egg so that the words were still visible. Said Mrs. Bennett...
Asked his opinion of the New Deal, its first victim could only make a wry face and helplessly wave...