Word: deskman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington Correspondent Frances Levison, while covering the Kefauver hearings, discovered a new hazard to her profession when she was called by her bureau's deskman, who asked: "Where were you? We were watching TV and you weren't at the press table...
...eight national and international stories, but no mention of the war, except a four-line box tucked in a Washington dispatch: "South Koreans fall back a mile . . . Details on page 9." On page 9, the Trib covered the Korean fighting with two brief wire-service stories. Explained a Trib deskman: "There wasn't much developing in the war that day. The people who get out the Tribune thought that there were a lot of other good stories [readers] would be more interested...
...years ago, William R. Moore, Associated Press deskman in New York, asked for a transfer to Korea, where he had served with U.S. occupation forces in 1946. On Moore's personnel card in New York, someone noted: "Gone to Korea. Be back in three years possibly...