[Homer_J_Simpson]

The first of the following three excerpts is continued from yesterday. The second from May 1.

Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Two Armies Give Up (Middleton) – 2-3
Doenitz in Appeal (Schmidt) – 3-4
The Citizens of Denmark Hail Their Liberation (photo) – 4
No. 1 Nazi in Poland Fails at Suicide – 4
Russians Capture Last Baltic Port – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Mad Land Attack Fails on Okinawa (Moscow, Lawrence) – 6
Australians Win Grip on Tarakan Airfield; Americans Complete the Conquest of Davao – 6
Stores Help Drive of New York Fund – 7
Spring Was In the Air at the New York Times Hall Yesterday (photo) – 7
The Texts fo the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 8-10
The Veteran (Hurd) – 10

The News of the Week in Review
The Great Drama in Headlines: The Beginning and the Climactic Week (graphic) – 11
Fifteen News Questions – 12
The Pulse of the War: A Chart Showing the Fluctuations of Allied Hopes for Victory – 13
As the Focus of the War Shifted to the Pacific (map) – 14
Army Shift to Pacific Next Big War Problem (Baldwin) – 15-16
“The Next Big Link-Up” (cartoon) – 16
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 16
“One to Go” (cartoon) – 17

The New York Times Book Review – 18
The Best Selling Books Here and Elsewhere
Among the New Mystery Novels (Reviews by Isaac Anderson)

[EternalVigilance]

Sometimes scoops don’t work out so well...

He broke huge story and lost his job

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/05/opinions/lauder-scoop-from-hell/