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Before the dust had settled from last week's explosion at the Sun, "Dimmy" Dimitman sent a thin-lipped memo to his editors. Excerpts: "Unduly large portions of our spot-news space have been devoted to subjects featured on the editorial page. > . . I think it should be our policy to gain readers before we concentrate on educating and reforming them. We are now preaching sermons to a congregation which believes them exactly...
...Memo Pad. In The Bronx, William Davenport tried to steal two nude statuettes, explained in court: "They reminded me of my girl friend...
...credit for the Spanish-American War.) If a Hearst reporter had not dropped a chance remark to a Manhattan Borough president in 1915, the Triborough Bridge might never have been built. The politician told the reporter the idea of the bridge was "a wonderful thing. . . . Write me a memo on it." And 21 years later, the bridge was there...
...what he regarded as vindication, and in a sense it was. To the Senate, California's Senator Sheridan Downey announced that General Eisenhower had reviewed the case and "removed any bar" to Kennedy's reaccrediting as an Army correspondent. Into the Congressional Record went: 1) a memo from Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, ex-SHAEF chief of staff, which said the Germans had made their Flensburg broadcast under Allied orders; 2) a War Department letter fixing its time as an hour and 54 minutes ahead of Kennedy's release...
Like many Unilever subsidiaries, the U.S. company is virtually on its own. At the beginning of this year, it sent Unilever House a one-page memo containing estimates of expenditures, sales and profits for 1946. They were approved, as usual. Now all Chuck Luckman has to do is make the profits...