Monday, Nov. 01, 1948
Dope Story
Things were pretty quiet last Sunday night in Denver. To build up a police-beat yarn, the tabloid Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News ran it under a 96-point Page One headline:
$25 MILLION
IN NARCOTICS
STOLEN HERE
In a later edition, the News revised its arithmetic:
THIEVES GET
$250,000 IN
NARCOTICS HERE
Next day the rival Denver Post headlined the facts: FIRM LOOTED OF $5,000 IN NARCOTICS.
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