Word: drummonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though its pay scale is frugal, the Monitor also attracts a high class of newsman. Many, like NBC Commentator Joseph Harsch and New York Herald Tribune Pundit Roscoe Drummond, go inevitably to better jobs. But the average service is 15 years for the 115 Monitor staffers who work in its cathedral-hushed city room, where they turn out prose unpolluted by cigar smoke, gin fumes or profanity...
...safe in the morning. That, Costantini did admit, "was a bad moment," but it had a telling effect on Fascist policy. After that. Benito Mussolini's breakfasts were made pleasanter by the fact that he could read reports from Whitehall to Rome often before British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond himself had seen them...
...first report of the satellite's launching was received at the Observatory at about 6:30 p.m. from an Associated Press release. J. Allen Hynek, the Associate Director of the Smithsonian in charge of the tracking program, and Kenneth H. Drummond, an administrative officer, immediately summoned what staff they could assemble and began to telephone "moonwatch" posts throughout the country...
...first calls went to stations west of the Mississipi River. Drummond explained that the satellite could be seen only in the twilight hours and that such conditions prevailed only in the western part of the country at that time...
...Herald Tribune already has one of Manhattan's most readable sport sections, backstopped by literate Columnist Red Smith, a fine drama critic in Walter Kerr, plus a strong stable of pundits-Walter Lippmann, the Alsops, Roscoe Drummond, David Lawrence. Under Brownie Reid, the Trib has opened a Moscow bureau (cost: $75,000 a year), staffed by able B.J. Cutler. Under longtime Associated Press Correspondent Don (The FBI Story) Whitehead, its Washington bureau in the past two years has turned in many a solid reporting job, such as the series last year by Tom Lambert and Robert S. Bird...