Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was shortly before noon. Mr. Truman talked to Marshall by telecon. A little later the network officials heard from Ross, cancelling the request for radio time. That evening, instead, a brief announcement was made that George Marshall would fly home to consult with the President. Harry Truman had to make some kind of show of being President...
Through the mountain valleys of Peru and along the dry coastal plain, soldiers and police tracked down the men blamed for the brief, bloody uprising in Callao (TIME, Oct. 11). By week's end more than 1,000 Apristas had been jailed. Each day the searchers hoped to bring in Aprista No. 1, famed Haya de la Torre...
...when Cromweli's body was exhumed, hanged and beheaded after Charles II's restoration). In a remarkable state of preservation, complete to a wart over the right eye, it was brought out of the bedroom chest of Canon Horace Ricardo Wilkinson in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, for a brief public appearance...
...pictures were up to those on home receivers, except for "snow" in the Washington station and for brief blankouts on stretches of track beyond the range of transmitters. Reporters appeared less interested in the experiment than in the televised World Series game. A.P.'s Arthur Edson noted that, technically, reception "was surprisingly good," but complained that he had missed most of an inning because FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock was posing for news pictures in front of the screen. The New York Star's Ernest Barcella was chiefly concerned about what had happened to Warren Spahn: "He was pitching...
...Freeman the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1934. Lee's Lieutenants, which followed, was an even more impressive achievement, and a complex study of Lee's command problem highlighted by brief, brilliant biographies of his commanders-Jackson, Stuart, Early and Longstreet...