Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newman moved, a tourist disclosed a fine compliment that was paid the Trib by Premier Stalin himself. The week before, at a midnight interview in the Kremlin, Minnesota's Harold Stassen had asked how come the Herald Tribune could not get a man into Moscow. Said Stalin, after a quick check with Molotov: "A part of the American correspondents have an ill mood toward us. But this Herald Tribune case is an accident. It is an outstanding newspaper." (It was an outstanding accident, for the paper had been trying to get a man to Moscow for more than...
Politics. In February, Murray said in an Editor & Publisher interview that he was "leaning toward the proposition that no Communist should be allowed to be a member of the Guild." Next month he appeared voluntarily before the House labor committee, testified that two Guild officers (John Ryan, New York executive vice president, and William Brodie, Los Angeles executive secretary) were Communists, and that the New York and Los Angeles locals were "probably" Communist-dominated...
...plan to clean the Augean stable of Greece's economy, and, specifically, the U.S.'s intention to control what kind of goods the notoriously inefficient Greek Government ought to buy with the U.S. loan. Premier Demetrios Maximos and Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris, in an interview with the New York Times, pointedly expressed their hope that the U.S. would restrict itself to an "advisory" role. In the past, the Government had persistently ignored any such advice offered by Britain, had imported picture magazines, chocolate, cosmetics and combs (now there are enough combs in the country to keep generations...
...Pibe" (Argentine slang for "The Kid") got back in time to cover Italy's fall. One night in Naples, tipped off that an Allied bigwig was arriving, they invited fellow reporters in for a binge. While Pibe got them drunk, Pack slipped out to get his interview. When the boys missed him and scrambled in pursuit, they found that he had crippled their jeeps...
With people who "take up his time," Fred is ruthlessly rude. When TIME asked for an interview, he snorted: "Why? You just have to find someone for your cover every week. . . . Well, it's the same trouble we have with guest stars. I'll cooperate-if it suits my convenience." Recently, when the U.S. Treasury asked him to appear at a bond rally, he declined: "Why should I? I pay my taxes...