Word: whitehurst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because New Year's Eve was his boss's night off, a copydesk assistant named D. L. Whitehurst was in charge of putting the Palm Beach Post-Times to bed. Instead of merely editing the last-minute news, he felt like making some of his own. He banged out a 650-word article and slapped it on Page One. Sample: "Half-drunk women heard their drunker men tell why this bloody mess, so far, far away would be over before another New Year. . . . They had been in combat-with their draft boards. . . . They had their stripes-deferment stripes...
...galleries, however, were open to spectators at sof a head. The real sentiment of the convention became apparent later. The Federation's leaders, including Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, newly elected president, were anything but isolationists...