Word: deskman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Newcomb, then a Pacific war correspondent, now a Manhattan deskman for the A.P., has doggedly sleuthed the inside story by talking to survivors and Navy brass. With her SOS unheard, Indy would not have been missed until she became overdue at Leyte two days later. There the fact that she was overdue was overlooked for more than a day. It was not immediately reported because a loophole-riddled directive saying "Arrival reports shall not be made for combatant ships" was construed to mean that non-arrivals were not to be reported either...
...chance to show his face to the people in all 29 states. Crowds have been well-ordered and speeches safe: "Every Mexican has the right to enjoy the liberty created by our heroes." But in small round-table sessions everywhere he went, wavy-haired López Mateos, a deskman by training, has lined up the loyalty of political leaders who count. Like his predecessor, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, he will probably head a government that talks to the left in public but runs down the political middle...
...February 1927, Reporter James Thurber quit his $40-a-week job on the New York Evening Post to start work as a $100-a-week deskman on Harold Wallace Ross's The New Yorker. Thurber was then 32; The New Yorker had just turned two; and Editor Ross, at 34, was already the whip-wielding crank who was to inspire and bedevil staffers until his death in 1951. In the November Atlantic Humorist Thurber started a serialized memoir of Ross by recalling their early days together...
...only 30 minutes, a federal jury in Washington last week found Seymour Peck, 39, a New York Times deskman, guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions put to him by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (TIME, Dec. 10). Peck, who has been kept on by the Times, told the committee that he had been a Communist for 14 years (until 1949), but he refused to name other party members he had known, claiming that it was his right under the First Amendment to do so. Maximum possible sentence: one year in jail and a $1,000 fine...
Said a perturbed Sevareid: "What is analysis and what is opinion or editorializing? Possibly the differences can never be resolved." His network ruled not only that Roper and Day had been right about the differences, but that Murrow and the Manhattan deskman had been wrong. The Association of Radio-TV News Analysts protested: "Every competent news analyst is bound to express editorial opinion. He does so in selecting topics, in emphasizing their relative importance, and in the tone of voice he uses ... It is hard to understand why CBS still pretends to follow an impossible policy which its news analysts...