Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week amiable Lourival Fontes and hard-boiled Civis Muller waited breathlessly to see who would be chosen Minister of Press & Propaganda by President Vargas. Lourival Fontes got the call. Civis Muller went back to his duty as a policeman. And Getulio Vargas enjoyed his mamau once more...
...prized his press clippings. It is also an old freeloading custom of the U. S. press, enjoyed in one guise or another by many sportswriters covering big-league baseball (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938), boxing, Bowl games, professional football. At one race track reporters reportedly got pay envelopes each week, were hurt at meet's end when the track management asked for their social security numbers, considering them track employes...
...Last week, with a legislative Donnybrook impending over New York's newly voted pari-mutuel system, Manhattan turf writers had plenty to write about...
...Last week Gary Bok walked into another editorial meeting to announce that he was making drastic changes in the Ledger's setup. Said he gravely: "Stanley Walker has resigned...
...Last week, three days out of hospital after an operation for appendicitis, Eileen Herrick stole away from home, met George Lowther. Shepherded by a Daily News reporter, with two Daily News cameramen in attendance, they fled to Conway, N. H. by plane and motor. While rival newsmen gnashed their teeth in impotent rage, Romeo & Juliet wrote a happy ending (exclusive in the Daily News), were married at last...