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Word: dishon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are hundreds of less noble, but no less valid, examples. Coleen Dishon of the Chicago Daily News had a phony invitation printed so her society editor could attend the 1967 wedding of Republican Senator Charles Percy's daughter Sharon Lee to Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV. Crusty Harry Romanoff, 76, of the Chicago American never leaves his desk, built a spectacular career on telephone impersonation. Known to admiring colleagues as "the Heifetz of the telephone," Romanoff achieved his greatest performance in covering the 1966 mass murder of eight Chicago student nurses, when he 1) extracted the gory details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: How Much May One Lie To Get the Truth? | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...seldom is. She guessed early that Jackie was pregnant with John Jr., was the first to pry confirmation from John Kennedy. She broke the story on President Johnson's rejection of the Peter Hurd portrait. Far from content with pool coverage, the Chicago Daily News's Colleen Dishon had an expert counterfeit an invitation to get her own reporter into the Jay Rockefeller-Sharon Percy wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Pages for Women | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

Syrian-trained saboteurs exploded a mine in the midst of a soccer crowd at the Israeli village of Dishon. A 100-man gang of terrorists from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: To the Left, March | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...Journal building's fourth-floor cafeteria, Sentinel and Journal staffers sit, by choice, at separate tables; after hours they tipple at different hangouts. One week, when Sentinel Reporter Bob Dishon was offered an advance copy of the city's new $111 million community-renewal program on the condition that he hold the story until 11 Saturday morning, Dishon refused; the release time was too late for the Saturday morning Sentinel, but it would nicely accommodate the evening Journal. Scrambling furiously, Dishon pieced the story together from other sources and published it in the Saturday paper, hours ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Competition in Milwaukee | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

Today, far from feeling inferior to the Journal, the Sentinel feels only challenged. "It's more fun being second, I think," says Sentinel Women's Editor Coleen Dishon, who, like her husband, voluntarily shifted over from the Journal. "Like Avis, we try harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Competition in Milwaukee | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

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