More famously, the Chicago Tribune proclaimed, in a day-after-the-election early edition, “Dewey Defeats Truman.” That remains among the most memorable and most familiar banner headlines in ...
Jamal Spencer, a local sports reporter from WZZM in Grand Rapids, Mich. had his own personal “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment when he reported Saturday that Michigan had beaten Michigan State.
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Truman pulled off an upset that produced a classic image: him holding up a newspaper front page with the headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.’’ If the outcome was surprising, the winner himself ...
If there’s a golden rule in journalism it’s better to be right than be first. “Dewey Defeats Truman!” printed by The Chicago ...
But the situation that the current moment really resembles, though, isn’t so much the 1980s as 1948—the beginning of the Cold ...
On the evening of Nov. 2, 1948, President Harry S. Truman settled into the Elms Hotel in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, to receive the results from his bid for reelection. The polls were grim.
It fit perfectly. So Dewey didn’t defeat Truman — as the Chicago Daily Tribune eventually learned — but he did clothe Nicklaus. When Nicklaus won his fourth Masters in 1972 — the year ...
In recent weeks, while maintaining his support for Israel, Biden has reacted to his liberal critics by stepping up pressure ...
If there’s a golden rule in journalism it’s better to be right than be first. “Dewey Defeats Truman!” printed by The Chicago Tribune in 1948 is among the most infamous front pages to get ...