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Memories Are Made of This (Ray Conniff Orchestra and Chorus; Columbia). Suds and saccharin by one of the slickest arrangers in the business. Filtered through the echo chamber of the mind, Conniff's heavily percussioned memories sound like nobody else's, but they bear some familiar titles: Moments to Remember, My Foolish Heart, No Other Love...
...interview with Khrushchev by its managing editor Turner Catledge. At least twice since the war, Hearst newsmen have headlined Moscow interviews, one of them far more tightly tailored to Kremlin preconditions, and the other deemed worthy of a Pulitzer Prize to William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Hearstmen Frank Conniff and Kingsbury Smith. Said Joseph Alsop, who last February interviewed Khrushchev for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate: "Any news-gathering organization has a double duty, to make money for its stockholders, but above all, to present the important facts of the world in which we live to its audience...
...respects to many reporters who in his judgment did a good job. Topping his list is the Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart. Among several dozen others who rate high marks on his list: the Associated Press's Leif Erickson, Reuters' Ronald Bachelor, I.N.S. Correspondent Frank Conniff (the best for "atmospheric prose"), the New York Times's Dick Johnson. The Trib's Marguerite Higgins often filed good stories, says Voorhees, but "she and the other [women] distinctly were out of place in a battle zone conditioned to the convenience ... of the male," e.g., open-air latrines...
Gray hustled back from a European vacation and resumed his broadcasts nine days early. He announced that he was ready to reply to "rabbit punches and low blows" from anyone. However, it was not Winchell but another Hearst columnist, the Journal-American's Frank Conniff, who first named Gray as the enemy. Wrote Conniff: "We say to these press agents and producers and personalities who give their support to Mr. Gray: 'That's just dandy. But surely don't be surprised if we here at the Journal-American invite you to keep getting your plugs from...
Emery, hit in the side, thigh and foot, was suffering from shock. Nevertheless he managed to dictate a distraught account ("It had been a physical and mental ordeal beyond my powers to describe") to Correspondent Frank Conniff of Hearst's New York Journal-American, which splashed it across Page One-as did other Hearst papers. Churchill, who also got back under his own power, had a half-dollar-sized hole in his shin. But he calmly dictated a smooth, well-told story of the patrol to the Associated Press's Hal Boyle, to be sent...