Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last week Peking's lone critic was silenced. Buried in a long Radio Peking broadcast was a brief item: Ma had "resigned" from his job as president of China's biggest university...
Describing the "Voice of Broadway" as "an unindexed catalogue of malice, reportage, and odd bits of misinformation," the Post said: "[The 'Voice'] goes in for the blind item, the sick item, and the vengeance item . . . Yet it has never succeeded in making or breaking any performer or public figure. Nor has Kilgallen herself ever become a figure of influence or intrigue, except among pressagents, who fear her as they fear almost anyone who can type...
...July day in 1938, thumbing through a pile of story clips, City Editor Harry F. Reutlinger of Hearst's Chicago evening American turned up an item reporting that a missing U.S. flyer named Douglas Corrigan had been sighted off the Irish Coast. Reutlinger promptly put in transatlantic phone calls to all three of Ireland's major airports, kept all three lines open until Corrigan landed at Dublin and took the call. "Fly the wrong way?" prompted Reutlinger, mindful that Corrigan, before taking off from New York, had given Los Angeles as his destination. "I sure did," said...
...item of darkening news was the March rate of industrial production. It dropped a point on the 1947-49 index to 165, and a point on the Federal Reserve Board's new index, from 110 to 109. But against this could be set another indicator suggesting a pickup in business. Reversing a downward spiral that started in early March, the average interest rate on the Treasury's issue of $1.1 billion in 91-day bills jumped by nearly a point to 3.622%, indicating that money is once again tightening up as business rolls forward...
...British-born New Yorker Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan ("Americans tend to judge a regime on the extent to which it likes America"). In a seven-column, $4,725 ad in the New York Times, the Fair Players charged that the U.S. press is deliberately distorting the news from Cuba. Item: press reports of Communism in the Castro government are "consistently used to create a smoke screen behind which the social objectives of the Cuban revolution can be attacked and sabotaged...