Word: coffining
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...bitterly: "When Stop the Music can give three iceboxes away instead of two and get listeners, it's a silly business to be in anyway." And what about death & taxes? "You wind up being a sieve for the Treasury Department . . . All you're working toward is a coffin, and I never saw one with a built-in safe...
...newspapers. When the American Newspaper Guild (then in the A.F.L.) struck Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Beck came to the Guild's aid. A mob of his hard-fisted cohorts surrounded the P-I building, beat up fleeing nonstrikers and closed the plant up tight as a coffin. Hearst set his writers to beating out virulently anti-Beck radio scripts. General Clarance B. Blethen, corpulent publisher of the Seattle Times, indignantly penned an editorial which ended with the ringing line: "How do you like the look of Dave Beck's gun? The shame...
Overnight, Columnist Coffin's shot in the dark was heard around the world. Diplomats in Paris talked it up. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano came out strongly for a meeting between Harry and Joe. Moscow papers gave a significantly big play to a Tass dispatch quoting Coffin's prediction...
Then came some dashes of cold water. A presidential press secretary told newsmen that no such meeting was planned, although the President's invitation to Stalin to come to Washington was still open. And in Paris, Secretary of State George C. Marshall implied that such reports as Coffin's merely played into the hands of Soviet propagandists. The trouble with the tip-like all such tips out of Washington-was that readers could not tell whether it was irresponsible reporting or an irresponsible leak from an administration official. Coffin insisted that he had another call from a "close...
...Second cousin of Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin. * Not to be confused with CBS Vice President and Correspondent Edward R. Murrow...