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...MIRACLE' SAVES CITY, trumpeted the New York World-Telegram & Sun. New York battened down and buttoned up, prepared for the worst. Commuters hurried home to secure the family car and bring in the garbage pails. Radio and TV turned their full attention to the big wind. ("Hurricane Edna," announced one television commercial perfunctorily, "is being presented to you as a public service by Con Edison...
According to one theory, mambo is an inevitable phase of cultural evolution, a resounding response to a major need Explains Darwin-minded Reporter Ed Wallace in the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "The rumba broke up the crowd of doleful listeners who had begun to accumulate like barnacles around the bandstand; it got people back on the dance floor.' The rumba came along just as dancers were becoming listeners. Then, when the kick of the rumba was beginning to wane, along came the mambo and eeuugghh! we're gone again...
...their series on Joe McCarthy, the Scripps-Howard papers (TIME, July 19) stirred up an even bigger furor than they had expected. One of the first and bitterest attacks on the series by the World-Telegram and Sun's Reporter Frederick Woltman came from within the S-H family itself. Nackey Scripps Loeb, 30, heiress to part of the estate of Founder E. W. Scripps and wife of hot-tempered Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader Publisher William Loeb, wired S-H executives: "[Woltman's] smearing of Senator McCarthy [is] rotten, biased journalism, which would make my grandfather...
...months ago, editors of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain gave New York World-Telegram and Sun Staff Writer Frederick Woltman a tough assignment: get busy and appraise the works of Senator Joe McCarthy. Freddy Woltman, 49, was just the man for the job. Long acknowledged the No. 1 newspaper specialist on Reds, he has been exposing Communists since 1938, and, unlike many other anti-Communist writers, he was never a Communist himself. A hard-digging reporter, he backed his stories with solid documentation-e.g., he exposed Gerhart Eisler as the top Kremlin agent in the U.S. the day before...
...newsreel producers would get an even break with the daily press, radio and TV. But within 24 hours after the briefing, H-bomb pictures and descriptive stories were spread over papers across the U.S., and were on every radio and TV network. It was, said the New York World-Telegram and Sun, "the most mishandled thing Washington has seen since the disaster at Pearl Harbor was kept 'secret' long after everyone -including the enemy-knew our fleet had been wiped...