Word: deskman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backing Off. Then some Tribune staffers began to rebel. Deskman Rex Adkins, a twelve-year man, quit the paper in protest, saying: "I can't work for Knowland any longer." Rush Greenlee, a Negro reporter who had been hired a year ago and who had turned out incisive articles on the ghetto, also resigned with a blast at Knowland. Other staffers laid plans to run a separate ad disavowing the publisher's position. At that point, Knowland backed off a bit and said that no more counterboycott ads would...
Even more surprising than the police inaction those Sundays was the way the press ignored the whole event. The Boston Globe did not carry the story at all last week. "There was no Smoke-In," one Newthinking City Deskman said. The Herald Traveler did say that 3000 young people had gathered on the Common, but it was not certain that marijuana was being smoked...
From 1957 to 1959, he put in his first tour of duty in Atlanta. His other positions on the magazine included bureau chief in Ottawa, deskman in New York and Deputy Chief of the Time-Life News Service...
...month was the first of the majors to act in steel's latest round of price increases, and last week it became the first to report third-quarter earnings, which are so good (up 100%) that they may herald high profits for the entire industry. Glossbrenner is no deskman but a roamer who pops into offices, huddles on the run with his young and fanatically loyal staff, often takes off in one of the company's private planes to close a sales deal if he thinks his presence will help. He has led a civic-reform drive...
...also happened that the Hilsman cable was sent on a Saturday. A junior officer was manning the Viet Nam desk when the cable with the Harriman approval came in. The State Department deskman had no one to call but a Pentagon deskman-who apparently did not realize the cable's contents warranted bothering a higher-up. And among the many Pentagon officials enraged by it was the highest-up: Defense Secretary McNamara. Summarizing McNamara's reaction, a Defense official said: "While it lasted, it was an atomic blast...