Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loud note in the editorial chorus was a warning against apathy. "The Republican mood," wrote Columnist Marquis Childs. "is one of supreme conviction of victory, with overtones of the smugness against which President Eisenhower himself warned." Citing the poor TV ratings of both political conventions, the Providence Bulletin thought that apathy was a problem confronting the Democrats as well. "The election will be no shoo-in for the Republicans," editorialized New York's Daily News, advising against a "refined, polite, high-level campaign . . . Nice-Nellyism seldom wins elections in this country." Slapping Adlai Stevenson for his "prissy little...
...Good Loser." To the two-story stucco house in a neglected La Habra orange grove came the news bulletin of Stassen's surrender. There Frank Nixon labored for life under a green oxygen mask. At the foot of his bed was a television set; on top of it rested the family Bible. Dick Nixon told his father about Stassen's surrender. The old man smiled, said painfully: "He's a good loser." Asked the son: "You heard that President Eisenhower opened his press conference by saying everyone is praying for you?" Replied his father: "Thank...
Adenauer was not reassured. Last week, in an article in the official government Bulletin, Adenauer launched an open attack on the Radford plan. "As to the debate on conventional and nuclear weapons started by the Americans," he wrote, "I would like to stress distinctly that for the time being I consider it unsuitable to shift the center of gravity to atomic weapons." His reasoning: what happened in Korea might happen in Germany, and to counter an East German invasion of West Germany with nuclear weapons would almost certainly "trigger an intercontinental rocket war. I am of the opinion that...
...ubiquitous TV eye produced new techniques and new enterprise in the press. Every major news-gathering outfit monitored the convention on the TV screen. Legmen still rushed to the telephone to report news breaks to the wire services, but the first United Press bulletin on the Truman endorsement of Averell Harriman came from the rewrite man who saw it on TV. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's convention speech was hard to hear in the hall, so the Associated Press used TV sets for coverage. In New York, the Times took the tally on the presidential ballot off the screen...
...interrupt this record," says a breathless voice after only a few bars of music, "to bring you a special bulletin. The reports of a flying saucer hovering over the city have been confirmed." So begins a record called The Flying Saucer, released five weeks ago on the "Luniverse" label and now one of the big off-beat hits in the jukebox trade...