Word: dispatchable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...read with interest and, we admit, with misgivings, your editorial on the Mississippi Valley Association, entitled, "In the Valley of Debt," whch was reprinted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on February...
That gave Sonderegger an idea: Why not set up a newspaper syndicate and clearing house to report crime on a national scale? In Chicago last month, at the Journal-Bulletin's invitation, staffers from the New York Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Chicago Daily News, the Denver Post and other major newspapers met in secret to set up the syndicate...
This week, members of the 14-paper syndicate got their first pooled story, written by Ted Link of the Post-Dispatch (TIME, Nov. 1, 1948) and reporters from the Chicago Daily News and the Miami Herald. A kind of ABC of national crime, it contained no bombshells likely to blow Frank Costello out of his Manhattan apartment. But the new syndicate's bosses were betting that cooperative reporting would make national headlines before long. One promising sign: gangdom was so worried that pool reporters had already been "approached" by the underworld...
Harvard was big news last weekend in Washington and Baltimore newspapers. They carried copy to the effect that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the nation's oldest university had seen fit to dispatch a note to the Navy objecting to the "informer clause" of the NROTC loyalty certificate...
...Actress Bergman was in a chintz-decorated three-room clinic suite, the U.S. public learned from its front pages.* "She is so taken with the tot," glowed one dispatch. Said Dr. Guidotti: "Miss Bergman is one of the happiest mothers I have ever known . . . The baby is one of the healthiest and prettiest I ever delivered." Flowers soon filled one room of the suite, and congratulatory messages flooded in, many from the U.S. (among the notable well-wishers: Marion, Davies and Ernest Hemingway...