Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Tie & Soap. Hagerty's first move was to shrink several hundred tour applications down to a manageable sum. In justice to all, he announced blandly, the White House would accredit all comers, but only one man from each news medium (the wire services and TV networks were allowed...
In the logistical planning, Hagerty left nothing to chance. Correspondents got a series of detailed memos advising just what shots to get (cholera, typhus, yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid and tetanus), how much luggage was allowed (66 lbs. in one piece), what to pack (three or four bars of soap, enough...
Assignments by Lot. That unavoidable but unpopular concomitant of any press tour, the reporter's pool (one man covering for the group), was settled by lot. The lucky pool men would fly in the presidential plane on a rotating basis, one reporter and one cameraman for each leg of...
In recent months, a flood of criticism has rolled down on the television industry for the way it runs its business, and all of it has been fully reported by the nation's daily and periodical press. Last week, at a luncheon for the Magazine Publishers Association in Manhattan...
"Among all forms of communication," said Burnett, "magazines are the greatest single hope this country has for provoking thought. Yet here is what I feel. Never in my 40 years in the advertising business have I seen magazines generally so blind to their mission. Never in my experience have I...