Word: deskman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper hit his desk, the editor on duty gulped and stopped the presses. He had failed to notice, in the shadowy impression on the Associated Press mat that supplied the picture, that one of the marines, Private Eugene W. Ervin of Bridgeport, Conn., was a Negro. The deskman met the crisis by ordering a pressman to take hammer and chisel to the press plate. Next morning Private Ervin's ragged ghost haunted the spot (see cut) where the Morning Star cut out the Negro and spited its front page...
...just so long as you're covered up you'll be in style!" Thus, with the earthy touch that is his trademark, Harry Truman set a folksy sartorial tone for the marriage of his daughter Margaret to the New York Times's suave Foreign Deskman E. (for Elbert) Clifton Daniel Jr., 43, a silvery-topped North Carolinian who picked up a faint British accent during six years in the Times's London bureau, developed an ulcer during a shorter (1954-55) stint in Moscow. Father-in-law-to-be Truman was "awful glad" that Cliff Daniel...
...83rd Congress got down to business, TIME reporters were again busy "working the Hill." The regular TIME reporters covering the Hill this year are James L. McConaughy Jr. and John L. Steele. In the 15 years he has been with TIME, McConaughy has been a writer. Chicago correspondent, deskman in the news bureau, bureau chief in Ottawa (where he spent 3½ years "watching the other form of democratic government work-the parliamentary system of Canada") and TIME'S bureau chief in Seattle. He has covered Congress for TIME since 1951. "I still remember my first...
...worse than useless. En route now to Buenos Aires is a different kind of ambassador, a capable but little-known careerman who is unlikely either to sass or salute a defiant neighbor. Even Perón should be able to grasp that Albert Nufer, 57, a longtime State Department deskman whose only previous ambassadorial assignment was in El Salvador, is likely to ask nothing, offer nothing. For the present, U.S. policy toward Perón will be to maintain correct surface relations-but the surface will...
...Call-Bulletin bought one of the pictures for $85; Scripps-Howard's News got another for $25. Both papers ran them on Page One, and next morning Hearst's Examiner ran others. The only San Francisco paper that did not run the pictures was the Chronicle, whose deskman could not be reached when the agency was peddling the prints. Next day the Chronicle ran a story that plainly condemned taking the picture under the circumstances. Said Managing Editor Larry Fanning: "We wouldn't have printed the pictures if they'd been offered to us for nothing...