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...last week the school janitor went down to the basement to rinse his mop, found windows smashed, wastepaper containers upset, paper scattered everywhere. Catching a flash of yellow disappearing up the stairway, he gave chase. Just as the boy was about to be trapped, he pulled a handful of stones out of his pocket, let fly a barrage. Dodging, the janitor slipped and fell on the wet floor. The boy disappeared...
Your reference (TIME, April 23) to the front-page news of Roosevelt's death in the Christian Science Monitor is guilty of half-truths. Your staff must know that the Monitor went to press Thursday before the flash came. By the time this paper went to press on Friday, every man, woman and child in the country knew the shocking news. Hence the "newsworthy" pointing of the Monitor's Friday afternoon headlines toward the important, morale-stiffening news of that day: the stabilizing effect of Truman's first moves as the reins of government passed...
Less than an hour later, breathless newscasters had the definitive word. They broke in with an A.P. flash: ALLIES OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED GERMANY SURRENDERED UNCONDITIONALLY. The statement that there had been an Allied announcement was untrue, but the surrender of Germany was a fact; the words that came boiling over the wires definitely documented it. The newscasters followed immediately with the now famed story by A.P.'s Edward Kennedy...
...appointments), but he left the White House each afternoon at 5:30 for his walk across the street to his temporary home in Blair House. (Newsmen stayed late at the White House every night but one, bedding down on the couches and chairs, waiting for a V-E day flash...
...Associated Press flash from Reims came over the radio-newsroom tickers at 9:35 a.m. Was it or wasn't it the starter's gun? The networks, ad libbing for dear life, decided that...