Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welcomed to London: Lana Turner & Groom Bob Topping. The welcoming just barely came off. Newsmen summoned for an interview were kept waiting an hour, then given a gentle but swift brush-off. "Probably the . . . most humiliating press conference ever held in Britain," the British Press Association called it. So the honeymooners tried again, with Scotch & soda and smiles. One paper quoted Lana's apology: "MGM loused it up." She denied using those words, but added: "They do sound rather American...
Polk himself had planned to embark for the United States next week, after two years of reporting in the Middle East. One week before his murder, the CBS broadcaster told friends he hoped to get a secret interview with guerrilla chieftain Markos Vifiades before he left...
...miles away, in Chicago, a 20-year-old university student named Barry Nathan pinned on his Gallup Poll button and sallied forth. He concentrated on first-floor apartments ("it's harder for them to refuse") and people waiting in self-service laundries ("God's gift to the interviewer"). Unlike chatty Mrs. Kadlec, he invariably opened his interview with the approved Gallup introduction: "I'd like your opinion on a few leading topics...
...Augusta Chronicle sent a reporter and a photographer to try for an interview; they were not even allowed out of their car. When the Chronicle's Managing Editor Louis J. Harris tried, the Pinker-tons stopped him 50 feet short of the clubhouse. He yelled for the club's manager, who told him that the General was not to be disturbed and ordered him off the grounds...
...Catholic slogan that 'birth control is against God's law' is the most immoral creed over proposed by man," Karl Sax, professor of Botany, declared in an interview last night defending the bill now before the State Legislature which would enable Bay State physicians to prescribe contraceptives for married women...