Word: gershman
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...long enjoyed a reputation for producing reporters who could respond like fire dogs to fast-breaking stories. To this day, the legend survives that Windy City newsmen uptilt their hatbrims and race off at 45° angles. No man has given more sub stance to the legend than Isaac Gershman, 70, who was general manager of the C.N.B. until his retirement this month...
Adding to the Lore. Gershman's retirement spotlighted C.N.B.'s role as an excellent place for journalistic novitiates and as the source of journalistic legend. And both reputations seem deserved. Each spring the bureau gets applications from 400 aspiring young journalists. Since 1959, Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism has sent some of its most promising students to C.N.B. for three months of on-the-job training. Even outside the Middle West, City News training is recognized as a valuable apprenticeship for the newsman en route to a big-city byline...
...long tenure there, General Manager Gershman infected bureau hands with his own conviction that the only good reporter is one who double-times to every story and double-checks every source. But even before his time, C.N.B. had made impressive contributions, both apocryphal and real, to the encyclopedia of journalistic lore. In 1903, when a smoke-blackened man crawled out of a manhole before the eyes of a C.N.B. legman named Walter Howey (later editor of Chicago's Herald and Examiner), Howey commandeered a phone in a nearby bookie joint and short-circuited, so the story goes, every other...
Through the Wall. Gershman nourished initiative partly by his insistence on exemplary routine. When a bureau hand named Jack Mabley turned in an account of a traffic fatality, he was sent back across town-five miles by street car - to get the middle initial of a survivor. "Once you do that," says Mabley, today a columnist for Chicago's American, "you never forget again...
...Theater Company has clearly expended a great deal of energy on this production. Dustin Hoffman as Clov, Frank Cassidy as Hamm, and Jerry Gershman and Naomi Thornton as Nagg and Nell all act with discipline and tact in a play that tempts them to noise and ranting. The set, by Alexander Pertzoff, is properly absurd. And David Wheeler's direction perfectly exploits the strength of this kind of theater. Experiencing Endgame is in a way like walking into the monastery chapel a few blocks down from Eliot House: we are thrown into another world and made to forget...