Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been fun to read about your far-flung correspondents and your globe-girdling editors and the girls who dot every word in TIME/' says a man in Washington. "But the member of your staff who interests me most is Circulation Director F. D. Pratt, the guy who sends me those letters when my subscription is about to expire. I suspect he's led a fascinating and probably misspent life, and I wish you'd tell us about...
Leopold III, King of the Belgians, suddenly recovered his health. From Salzburg he sent word that he was coming home. Since Socialist Premier Achille Van Acker's Government had virtually barred the sovereign's return (TIME, May 21), Leopold's decision plunged the nation into a constitutional crisis...
...Chambery, in France, the train stopped. A mob formed. Word went round that the train was carrying home the Blue Division (Spaniards who fought with the Germans against Russia). With iron rods, clubs, stones, bottles, the French went to work on the passengers...
Their mission was as nebulous as it was ambitious: to examine the global hopes & fears for a postwar free press. They expected-and got -two-faced answers and open suspicion of U.S. motives from politicians, the support of editors everywhere. Their own 40,000-word report on their 40,000-mile travels was tart and sensible. Overall impression : facts are going to have as hard a time as ever getting around after the war. The traveling threesome, representing the American Society of Newspaper Editors, were the New York Herald Tribune's kindly, pipe-chewing Wilbur Forrest, Columbia University...
Russia's Izvestia, which barks at U.S. papers for barking back at it, used the traveling editors' report as a new excuse to lecture the U.S. press. Said Izvestia: "We do not want upheld as the last word in democracy such 'freedom of the press' which produces Hearsts, brings papers to irresponsibility, inspires false information and the seeds of suspicion in the relations between countries. . . . We do not need such a 'democracy.' Let others have...