Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ritual & Injunction. The Pulitzer prizes immortalize the name, but scarcely the intent, of Joseph Pulitzer, a crusading 19th century journalist who founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, introduced comic strips and sensational headlines (LOVE AND CIGARETTES CRAZED HIM) in his New York World, and willed $2.000,000 to Columbia University. All but $500,000 of the bequest was earmarked for the establishment of a journalism school. Pulitzer reserved the smaller sum for the annual prize contest* that bears his name...
...though the election is still seven months away, much of the press is already talking of Nixon as a potential loser. Columnist Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently compared Nixon to Thomas E. Dewey as a man with a losing habit...
According to a dispatch in yesterday's New York Times, Peter de Lissovoy '64 and a South African journalist were charged with entering the Durban reserve without a permit. They had entered the reserve to take Albert John Luthuli, a Nobel peace prize winner, to his home...
Variety's London correspondent found it "'sick,' not very pleasant entertainment, though there may be hidden [!] symbolism that justifies some of the more uneasy events." Charles Marowitz' dispatch to the Village Voice called it "the excrescence of the New Drama which has been vacuumed of half a dozen plays and emptied into a new container," and added that "the [leading] actress and the playwright both get splattered when the wit hits...
...working desperately to help the Dominicans rid themselves of the Trujillos without leaving a vacuum for Communism to fill, the compromise seemed a workable answer if not a perfect one. President Kennedy hailed the solution, promised U.S. support in getting the sanctions lifted, increased sugar purchases, and the quick dispatch of Alliance teams to size up the country's development needs...