Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course not, says Alfred Friendly, managing editor of the Washington Post and Times Herald, in leading off a debate on the subject in the current Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "The responsibility that goes with the press's privileged position is that of serving as an objective chronicler, watchdog, critic, and independent or extralegal check," says he. By holding "at arm's length" all requests for staffers to serve on charitable, civic and government boards, the Post has found that reporters' "criticism is sharper, the praise is less inhibited and carries a greater impact...
...city-room bulletin board went a warning to staffers that "disciplinary action" would be taken against any reporter who accepts even a part-time job from a candidate. Tierney also sent out letters to every office-seeker in Hudson County, pointing out that it would be "manifestly unfair" to allow reporters to work for some candidates but not others...
...maternal dispatch from Monaco, Princess (High Society) Grace issued a bulletin on the development of five-week-old Princess Caroline, christened at week's end. Straight from the royal cradle: "Little Caroline does not suck her thumb . . . She certainly does not suck all her fingers, as some monster suggested . . . She hates hats . . . She also has a prejudice against her father's camera . . . They say she is a very pretty child, but how should I know...
...supersonic B58 Hustler bomber. Though Wilson's statement did nothing more than reflect the routine Pentagon procedure of constantly reappraising air needs, the Wall Street Journal blew it up into a long scare story headlined: PENTAGON WEIGHS FUTURE OF B-525 . . . and the Dow-Jones ticker carried a bulletin about the possible replacement of the B-52. In little more than an hour, Boeing dropped 3½ points from 52, reached a low of 47½ before the Air Force hastily announced that Boeing had firm orders for 502 B-52 bombers. At week's end, still...
...petition bearing 296 qualified signatures was filed by the group requesting that the Wellesley attorney, a former aide to General Douglas MacArthur, be "nominated by certificate." The nomination was announced in the Alumni Bulletin last week...