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...John Boettiger strode into the newsroom of the Phoenix Republic and Gazette, thrust a handout at a reporter. It said that Anna and he would "gradually" develop the newsless shoppers' weekly into a daily paper. It did not say (or need to) that John and Anna hope to break the Republic and Gazette's profitable monopoly. The Republic called itself the Republican until 1930, still talks like one; the Gazette, under the same ownership, is only a little more polite to Democrats. The New Dealing Boettigers obviously hoped to capitalize on one fact of life in Arizona...
They landed long after the President had hurried off to see his mother at Grandview. It was midnight before they caught up with him. It had been a wearing, tedious, all-but-newsless...
Publishers unhappily watched retail sales boom, without benefit of ads. (Seattleites, hearing that Labor Boss Dave Beck might call a strike of store clerks, did their Christmas shopping early.) After three newsless weeks, the thing people missed most, it appeared, was the latest on Dick Tracy v. Itchy...
...Three Conferees dispersed under cover of an all but newsless fog of military security. But here & there was vouchsafed a glimpse-such as Franklin Roosevelt's afterdeck chats with Near Eastern potentates (see INTERNATIONAL); here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw. Snorted Shaw: "[The Yalta Conference is] an impudently incredible fairy tale. . . . Will Stalin declare war on Japan as the price of surrender of the other two over Lublin? Not a word about it. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales, I for one should, like to know what really...
Washington was all but newsless. Members of the strong, independent International Typographical Union did not go to work Monday morning. They did not formally strike; they called a meeting; voted to remain in continuous session. Their demand: a $1.33 a day pay hike...