Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slowly, almost despite themselves, Albany reporters found themselves writing stories favorable to Tom Dewey. At his press conference Dewey always announced the big news of the day before newsmen got a chance to ask questions (Dwight Eisenhower often follows the same practice), and Hagerty handed out releases explaining the details. "If it was late and you wanted to get home for dinner," recalls an old Albany hand, "you ended up writing pretty much what Hagerty gave you to write. The stories were always accurate and reasonable, and that made it easier...
...Capitol Hill next day went Jim Gavin for another run-through before the committee and another press statement. Said Gavin: "I can do better for the Army outside than in. I have no ax to grind. I am not unhappy with my Secretary. I am not going out to write and raise a rumpus and things...
Crimson fishermen have apparently been neglecting their sport. Anyone interested in upholding school honor should write Edward C. Migdalski, Yale fishing coach...
...gunfight over his charges. But he kept returning to the attack against "splenetic-hearted hypocrites and pietistical deadbeats," lashed the Baptist elders as "bipedal brutes...whom an inscrutable Providence has kept out of the penitentiary to ornament the amen-corner," scorned the Baylor faculty as "men who cannot write deer sur without the expenditure of enough nervomuscular energy to raise a cotton crop...
...trouble is that you cannot write novels about boxers with boxing gloves...