Word: dispatchable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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From Yucatan came news that a large aluminum disc had been seen whizzing by at an altitude of a thousand feet. The most magnificent dispatch came from the northern state of Zacatecas: a farmer had found a large kite-shaped object in the mountains, with two passengers, each just under two feet tall. The Department of National Defense solemnly denied the existence of the midget visitors...
Leafing through the St. Paul Dispatch last fortnight, Jimmy Lewis, 14, caught his breath as he came upon two rogues'-gallery photographs of a tough-looking customer. The story with the pictures, one of a series' on public enemies by Hearst's International News Service, identified the man as William Raymond Nesbit, 50, Iowa jewel thief, murderer-by-dynamite and escaped convict. Jimmy thought the face was familiar; it looked like "Ray," a man who was living in a cave in a park not ten minutes from St. Paul's downtown...
Next year's Nieman Follows will be chosen by two newspaper editors and one Washington columnist in addition to the three permanent members of the selection committee. Columnist Marquis Childs, Editor Louis B. Seltzer of the Cleveland Press, and Irving Billiard, editorial page editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have accepted appointments to serve on the selection committee...
Then the President tilted his head back in a characteristic little mannerism, which both announces that he is ready for a fresh question and helps his astigmatic eyes spot the next questioner through his glasses. He spotted a fellow Missourian, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's able Raymond Brandt. Brandt asked whether the Krock interview had been authorized in that form. It had been, said the President...
...Louis Post Dispatch and the Nation, both of which have written extensively on Pick-Sloan, are responsible, for the twice-as-much-water-as-exists information...