Word: l
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...L. MITCHELL Everett, Wash...
...l-o-n." Under orders from President Eisenhower not to spill the beans of Ike's private talks with Macmillan, Hagerty fell back on trivia, soon began sounding like a parody of himself. A sample Hagerty announcement: "I have one bit of hard news. Mr. Berding∣State Department press officer∣ was asked this morning if the President was sleeping in a four-poster bed, and the answer is yes, and also if he had ever slept before in a four-poster bed, and the answer is also...
...sleeve-embodying, as the Observer wrote, "the Foreign Office's distrust of the whole notion of press relations"-Hope applied his cool diction to reciting the food consumed by Eisenhower and Macmillan ("Charentais melon, sole Duglere"), pausing to spell out words down to and including m-e-l-o-n for the benefit of reporters...
...jerry-built empire of Alexander L. Guterma, financial juggler, began to totter early this year, he desperately sought more cash to save it. Guterma, then boss of the F. L. Jacobs Co.. which controlled the Mutual Broadcasting System and at least twelve other corporations, found a likely moneybags in the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, always willing to pay for favorable publicity. Last week a federal grand jury in Washington charged that Guterma, 44, collected $750,000 from Trujillo to disseminate "political propaganda" and failed to register as an agent of a foreign power. The grand jury...
...JOHN L. BURNS...