Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered some 20,000 state employees to work and vote for him in the county and state conventions-or lose their jobs. "Not since Huey Long bulldozed his way to power in Louisiana has any man used such Gestapo-like tactics to gain a political goal," fumed the Louisville Courier-Journal. "Happy and his cohorts have drawn the line at nothing...
Only Communist Party members in Russia had been given an inkling of all this earlier. At cell and district meetings couriers from the Central Committee have appeared with a copy of the speech. Short excerpts have been read, which members have been warned not to write down, and the courier has then returned with his precious document. Gradually, from an initial sense of shock, party members have been brought to a state of high hope and expectancy for the future. Last week the Central Committee evidently thought that the time had come to extend its propaganda drive to take...
...deeply impressed the local Observer's observer: "Presley burst onto the stage, staggering and flailing like a moth caught in a beam of light." Flouncing down to Charleston, S.C., the twitchy bobby-soxers' twitchy idol made an even deeper impression upon the press. The local News & Courier sent one of its newshens, customarily safe in its education department, to try to talk to Presley and photograph him. As she aimed her camera at him. Presley impetuously leaned over and gave her a love bite on the hand. The lady reporter protested. Wagging his tail cordially, Dixie Pixy Presley...
Bracing himself to cover both the Democratic and Republican national conventions this summer, Author John (In Dubious Battle) Steinbeck was slightly worried at never having attended that sort of big political show. Last month Reporter Steinbeck, engaged to dope out the conventions for the Louisville Courier-Journal and some 25 other newspapers, sent a help-wanted letter to the dean of Northwestern University's School of Journalism, Kenneth E. Olson. Excerpts from his waggish call for the perfect legman: "I want a combination copy boy, telephone answerer, coffee maker ... an eavesdropper and Peeping Tom, a gossip and preferably...
Ours Are Bigger. Khrushchev deployed his evidence with skill. All week long, three sleek Russian jet airliners whooshed in and out of London Airport on courier missions. He sent Soviet Plane Designer Andrei Tupolev to look at the Britannia, Britain's latest turboprop liner, and Tupolev emerged remarking: "An impressive airplane, but we are building a bigger turboprop, which will carry 170 passengers." He sent Soviet Atomic Expert Igor V. Kurchatov to Harwell to deliver a lecture that left British scientists much impressed (see SCIENCE...