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...moved back to his unheated fourth-floor room in the shell-pocked Duna Hotel. Phone service was disrupted, but the Western correspondents were able to file brief pooled dispatches on the only Teletype circuit to Vienna left intact. To get out the full, running narrative of Hungary's deathwatch, Jones ran off five carbon copies of his stories, sent them out with acquaintances, passers-by and an Austrian black-marketeer. So effective was their improvisation that the first big convoy of correspondents who arrived in Austria with eyewitness accounts of the Soviet counterattack in Budapest found that Jones, Marton...
...morning of Shaw's death, newsmen, who had stood a two-day deathwatch in the rain and fog outside the gates of the plain house called Shaw's Corner, were cheered at 4:30 a.m. by a sudden lifting of the fog. A half-hour later the stars were burning brightly when Housekeeper Alice Laden appeared at the gates and told the reporters, "Mr. Shaw is dead." Next day the world's newspapers were crammed with the highlights of his long life, restatements of his sauciest witticisms and the tributes of the great to a figure...
Emmett Gary Middlecoff, the golfing dentist from Memphis, sank his final putt for a 286 and began his deathwatch. In the pressroom at Medinah Country Club, 23 miles from Chicago, he dragged alternately at a cigarette and two double-Bourbons with Coke. His wife, Edith, was weeping with excitement, and a friend was prematurely pounding him on the back and burbling, "Boy, you're the champ . . . what a homecoming Memphis will put on for you." Reporters were dispassionately batting out new leads about the biggest golf tournament of them all-the U.S. Open...
...There (Tues. 10:30 p.m., CBS). "On-the-spot" deathwatch on Socrates...
...trust, had surrounded himself with incompetents and, most important of all, was unable to account for a personal fortune of $357,000. Governor Roosevelt was trying to sift these matters and to decide whether he should remove Sheriff Farley from office. High above the heads of the Tammany deathwatch, whose votes might mean the Governor's nomination and election to the Presidency this summer and next autumn, hung a portrait of Grover Cleveland, a New York Governor who bucked Tammany, went to the White House on the slogan: "Public Office is a Public Trust...