Word: covered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prompted by your excellent cover story on the University of Chicago's Robert Hutchins [TIME, Nov. 21], I should like to express my opinion about the exuberant chancellor...
...Reader's Digest for a sprightly piece on We Live in the Slums. She joined the Trib as a feature writer in 1944. But not till two years ago did she get her first chance on a breaking news story when the Trib sent her to Havana to cover the Satira yacht-murder of Playboy John Lester Mee (TIME, May 5,1947). She scooped a horde of male reporters by getting aboard the police-impounded yacht and scampering off with Mee's diary. Last March she got Septuagenarian Vic Shaw to tell the intimate story of her life...
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...money and his troubles began. When a secretary mistakenly mailed a $50,000 check to pay a plumber's bill, Hilton dashed to a friend who knew the postmaster to get the check back before it was delivered. Without being asked, the friend lent Hilton $50,000 to cover the check. When Hilton ran out of money again, he went back to his landlord and persuaded him to finish and furnish the building. Then Hilton rented it back from him at $100,000 a year...
Phillips was a graduate student from Nebraska. He had come to study philosophy under Harvard's "greats"-Santayana, Josiah Royee, William James-and he started the book shelf merely to help cover his expenses. It was a success, and in two years was bringing him $1000 beyond his living expenses. Phillips neglected his graduate studies-he didn't receive his Master's degree until 1928-and moved to a store...