Word: sensationalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To many editors, it had seemed likely to be the most controversial trial since the 1925 Scopes evolution case. And so from all over the U.S. more than 100 reporters, photographers and radio broadcasters had poured into the mill city of Manchester, N.H. to cover the "mercy killing" trial of...
Last week, with the annual pre-Lenten carnival at hand, Attila the Hun journeyed to Port-of-Spain's Mucurapo Stadium to compete with other island troubadours for the unofficial title of Trinidad's 1950 calypso king. A crowd of 3,000 sweating Trinidadians-black, white and East...
Privately, Hearstlings thought they knew why the News was gaining on them. In the Herald-American, Chicagoans were still getting the Hearstian formula of sex, sensation, antivivisection and Mac-Arthur-for-President. Herald-American staffers were sure that they could do better by dropping the canned crusades in favor of...
Clock In the Head. The question to be decided: Could last year's winner, the University of Wisconsin's 22-year-old Don Gehrmann, win again against 1950's middle-distance sensation, 29-year-old FBI-Man Fred Wilt? Gehrmann, a brown-haired Milwaukee boy, had a...
Spruce from a new overhaul, the mighty U.S.S. Missouri-the only active battleship in the U.S. Navy-steamed out of Norfolk last week headed for Caribbean maneuvers. For lean, strong-jawed Captain W. D. Brown, it was the first trip since he took command last December. Just past Old Point...