Word: banners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While CBS Board Chairman William Paley was proving once again that this is a year for underdogs, NBC was crying "Foul!" Though trade papers had banner-lined that he had made similar-but smaller-offers to keep Benny, President Niles Trammell announced primly that NBC would "continue to refuse" any part in capital gains deals "until the U.S. Treasury says that such transactions are lawful . . ." Scoffed a CBS spokesman: "Mr. Trammell's statement is unwarranted and reflects unfairly on many creative artists who have done no more than abide by our tax laws like any businessman or corporation...
...Harvard-hating segment of the nation's press has been handed a new chance to snipe at the Veritas banner. The papers have just learned that last February Edwin B. Newman of the Psychology Department told Bloomfield College in New Jersey that he did not think psychologists at Bloomfield or elsewhere should be selected for their political or economic beliefs. And the press has also heard that Newman said Bloomfield flouted freedom of speech and conscience when it insisted on orthodox opinions. Hearing all this, they have given Newman harsh publicity in the last month...
...Yale man in a white hat made two big mistakes. The first was to go down on the field. The second mistake was trying to salvage his blue banner. The white hat went sailing up in the air and it's a miracle his head didn't go with it. A few of his compatriots made a rash sortie in rescue, but it was a lost cause. They were neatly cut off and annihilated...
...gates were opened and the crowd swirled around the train. Someone handed the President a copy of an early election-night edition of the Truman-hating Chicago Tribune with a banner line: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, and he held up the paper to the crowd, grinning...
Three Little Words. Right up to the early hours of Wednesday, Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune stubbornly carried the banner headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. Below it, the Trib's veteran Washington bureau chief, Arthur Sears Henning, wrote placidly that "Dewey and Warren won a sweeping victory in the presidential election yesterday ... by an overwhelming majority of electoral votes." When Harry Truman got a copy, he chuckled: "That's one for the books...