Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Tie & Soap. Hagerty's first move was to shrink several hundred tour applications down to a manageable sum. In justice to all, he announced blandly, the White House would accredit all comers, but only one man from each news medium (the wire services and TV networks were allowed...
Assignments by Lot. That unavoidable but unpopular concomitant of any press tour, the reporter's pool (one man covering for the group), was settled by lot. The lucky pool men would fly in the presidential plane on a rotating basis, one reporter and one cameraman for each leg of...
"Among all forms of communication," said Burnett, "magazines are the greatest single hope this country has for provoking thought. Yet here is what I feel. Never in my 40 years in the advertising business have I seen magazines generally so blind to their mission. Never in my experience have I...
The result falls somewhere between Who's Who and Confidential. In a foreword Amory boasts that no one listed in the register "paid to get in-or, for that matter, to get out." The listing on Novelist Truman Capote says that he has "a foliage of blond and somehow...
One day last week, a teleprinter in the Los Angeles Mirror-News chattered excitedly with a strange bit of copy. "The following," began a story punched out 6 miles west, "is released by Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, 4614 Sunset Boulevard. Attention city desks. Advance release. 'Mistletoe is for...