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...group chose to gather at the Boston City Hospital "as a reminder of the domestic needs which have been overshadowed by the war," a handout sheet stated...
...other hand, hail pretrial silence as a promising antidote to jury prejudice-and they say that the A.B.A. proposals offer no threat to freedom of the press. "Reporters might get out and do some digging instead of running over to the D.A.'s office for a handout," says Manhattan Lawyer Robert Kasanoff. The whole point is to focus trials in courtrooms rather than newspapers, declares Richmond's Lewis F. Powell Jr., former president of the A.B.A. The result would fortify the A.B.A.'s canons of ethics, which have condemned pretrial talk by lawyers since 1908. As Powell...
...that are really the important roots of the action." In his search for those hidden factors, he made intensive use of his telephone and his legs. He was always, he said, "more concerned with the reportorial quality of what he wrote than with any punditry." He scorned the official handout, preferring to find out for himself. And as a result, he piled up an impressive catalogue of scoops. In 1933 he was the first to report that the U.S. was going off the gold standard; that same year, he broke the news about the formation...
...bane of every newsman's existence is the publicity handout. In a never-ending stream, handouts arrive in the morning mail to proclaim that Consolidated Everything has just named Jim Jutjaw as the new vice president in charge of personal advancement; or that Sandi Starlet's high-rise bust does not keep her from reading on her back; or that Senator Somnolence has forthrightly called for further discussion...
...Morton of the weekly Florida Business Leader. After analyzing his daily 41-ft. pile of junk mail, Morton decided to take Draconian measures. By registered letter, he informed 35 of the most constant offenders (none of whom ever took ads) that in the future he would regard any handout as an ad-insertion order, which he would automatically print at a charge of $2.50 per column inch...