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...single story on the fight. Nor was it an isolated skirmish. On a grander scale, some TV network executives charge, economic rivalry is prompting newspapers to wage a subtle and far-reaching campaign to discredit TV even while they promote it. Item: Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram and Sun in the past month has run four Page One stories quoting authorities ranging from Poet Carl Sandburg to Scriptwriter Goodman Ace in dispraise of TV's "cultural smog" and "deathless mediocrity...
LIKELY KO, forecast a sport-page banner line in the New York World-Telegram and Sun. And indeed, in the first three rounds the outcome seemed certain. The old man had nothing left. Sugar Ray Robinson was a cautious shuffler just two days shy of 37, and he two-stepped away from Gene Fullmer, the brawling, 25-year-old Mormon elder who had taken away his middleweight championship four months ago. At ringside in Chicago, the experts exchanged knowing nods: age had soured Sugar...
Interviewed by a New York World-Telegram and Sunman, plain-spoken Actor Paul (A Hole in the Head) Douglas was quoted as having said: "Now there will always be an audience of slobs for Arthur Godfrey and Ed Sullivan-the slobs who like to be patronized by the kindly big shot." Douglas' corrected version: "What I said was, there will always be an audience for slobs like Arthur Godfrey." On a quick visit to Rome, TV Impresario Sullivan, according to a CBSpokesman, heard the original version and got "very, very mad." Just blown in from an African safari, Impresario...
...were no seats left. He produced pictures showing empty seats in the courtroom and was admitted, one of the two U.S. correspondents at the trial (the other: U.P.'s Ed Korry). Back in the U.S., Pressman got a job as a City Hall reporter for the New York World-Telegram, then, 2½ years ago, joined NBC's Manhattan station WRCA to become its first roving radio-TV reporter. "I've covered everything from the Andrea Doria sinking to the catching of a boa constrictor in a Bronx supermarket," says Pressman, who packs a 20-lb. tape...
...withhold the story from police and aim for the jackpot: the bomber's surrender. Instead of printing the letter, the Journal ran a wily item in its Personals column intimating that it would "help" the bomber if he gave himself up. The ad caught the eye of World-Telegram Managing Editor Richard Starnes, who guessed immediately that the Journal had received a letter from the bomber, checked out his hunch, and broke a Page One story on the bomber's "new letter to a New York newspaper, hinting that he may declare at least a temporary truce." Three...