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...Richard Watts have a similar "personal" yardstick. The Mirror's Robert Coleman ("My readers consider me a ... shopper for them"), the Journal-American's John McClain ("My duty is to tell my readers whether or not a show is worth the price of a ticket") and the World-Telegram and Sun's William Hawkins ("My role is informative ... as is any good shopping service") all take a somewhat less individualistic view of their roles...
Last week, when Indiana's Republican Senator William E. Jenner charged that Fair Dealers "shamefully" sent American troops to Korea where "they were supposed to be defeated" by the Communists (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the pro-Eisenhower New York World-Telegram and Sun tried a different way of handling the story. The Telly thought Jenner's charge was Page One news, but in a rare editorial note preceding the news story, it also warned its readers to beware: " [We print] the following dispatch because it is a statement by a United States Senator. It should be pointed out, however...
...What was wonderful," said Olin Downes of the New York Times, "was the tenderness, the depth and subtlety of her scene with Wotan and the sweeping drama of the ensuing passage with Siegmund." Wrote the World-Telegram & Sun's Robert Bagar: "The lady did herself-as well as Wagner-proud . . . [And] she sprang about with something approaching the graceful...
Renewed negotiations began with the American Federation of Labor photoengravers still deadlocked over wages and fringe benefits with teh six marooned papers, the Times, Mirror, Post, Jurnal American, News, and World-Telegram...
This week, as Dewey's investigators got to work on the Yonkers mess, the New York World-Telegram and Sun trotted out another scandal, this one at Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island. Labor bosses, the paper said, have been milking the paychecks of track employees for $345,000 a year; every Friday night, Roosevelt employees who wanted to keep their jobs hastened to a bar in nearby Hempstead and forked out cash tribute to the racketeers.' Some of the payments went for tickets to clambakes, but the rest of the money was simply handed over with no questions...