Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to share her pleasures by creating a Press Club, and soon a teen-aged horde was released on any loose celebrity around. When Harry Truman visited Chicago last spring, Val suggested to her boss that the Press Club interview the President. "Little girl," said he, "go out and buy yourself an ice-cream cone." But Val talked her boss into it, and Truman agreed. Her conference was the only one the President gave in Chicago. Said Val: "It was precedent-breaking. It made history. It was keen...
...able to vote, Val couldn't decide last week which of the two accommodating mayoralty candidates she would vote for. Of all the news characters in all the world (which are the terms she thinks in), whom would she most like to interview? "Stalin, or maybe Molotov. Of course," she added, "I'd rather meet [Movie Actor] Peter Lawford than anyone else. He's keen...
Barron Beshoar called on a Denver businessman to get his views on the international situation. The man gave him a long look, hrrmphed, reached toward the floor beside his desk and came up with a huge Spanish onion. "Here," he said, "have one." That ended the interview. If any symbolism was intended, Beshoar has not figured...
...Athens interview with Cleveland Plain Dealer Correspondent John Leacacos, Tsaldaris offered a solution to Greece's civil war. He asked Joseph Stalin to tell all Communists that the Communist Party prefers victory by democratic means to victory by violent revolution. Then a neutral zone in northern Greece should be created where Greek guerrillas could surrender their arms without fear of recrimination (they would be free to leave Greece or stay under police protection). New elections should be held under international surveillance. As concessions, Tsaldaris offered a wide amnesty to political oppositionists, and customs-free zones in the Aegean port...
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Foreign Minister, told newsmen visiting Moscow the assets a good newspaperman must have: "Strong legs-first to catch the man he wants to interview, and secondly to run away from the man after he has printed...