Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at 96, Charles Boettcher died in the Brown Palace Hotel. He was one of the richest men in the U.S., and one of the least-known. Reporters dug into their files, found a late interview in which the failing old man had crackled: "The young man who wants to go into business should consider hardware. Axes and hammers don't go out of style like so many things...
...Fisherman, and was going to have it published on his own terms: "There will be no movie, no radio broadcasts, no condensations, no serializations, and no book clubs . . . Anybody who wants this book will have to buy it from a book store." Calming down a bit, in an interview with Script Magazine, he added: "I'm just an irascible old man who has written a book and wants it to stay a book...
...most of TIME's staff, the convention produced only one entirely new aspect: television. LIFE and the National Broadcasting Company having joined forces to report the convention via television, TIME's reporters made a number of appearances before the cameras to interview candidates and politicians, and to report on fast-breaking maneuvers. Frank McNaughton, TIME's Congressional correspondent, who knows about as many politicians intimately as a newsman can, made so many appearances before the television cameras that he contracted what he called "video sunburn" - from the pancake makeup they smeared on his face each time...
...Dewey himself entered the fight. Fortnight ago Philadelphia's Sheriff Austin Meehan, a Duffman who has been given control of the job-heavy state Department of Revenue, got word that the governor of New York wanted to call for a personal interview. When Meehan replied that he would see Dewey only in Duff's company, the interview was called...
Finally, Campbell was told to go away and come back in a couple of months. Newsmen tried to track him down for an interview. They had no luck; nobody at headquarters knew his address...