Word: legman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legman was not Woltman, though the signature on the story was his, and the credit belonged mostly to him. Freddy Woltman gets most of the stories he writes by sitting at his desk in the city room. Other reporters usually develop the tips. A carefully cultivated army of tipsters, many of them disgruntled ex-Communists, keep his two phones humming all day long. Woltman checks the tips in a four-decker steel filing case, which bulges with clippings, speeches, articles, manifestoes, bulletins and letters from Communist sources, files of Woltman's "favorite morning newspaper": the Daily Worker. His steel...
Peggy's story was worth one line in a gossip column until the News went to work on it: a stranger had planted kisses on Peggy Joyce's shoulder, proposed to her, and had been knocked cold by her escort, Comedian Joey Adams. Methodically, Legman David Charnay tracked down all hands, helped them say quotable things...
...York Times, among others, had hired the monsignor as Vatican legman. He turned in such a sloppy, inaccurate report of an important Papal speech that the Times's Rome bureau chief Milton Bracket had to repudiate the story next day. Eventually Bracker fired him, as did almost every U.S. news service. Pucci had handed the A.P. and other agencies a story that the then Msgr. Francis Spellman was planning a trip to the Middle East to review the troops; it turned out that he had read "Middle West" in a French newspaper and got the story wrong...
Last week Columnist Rose, who uses a young advertising man named Lee Rogow as a legman-but needs no ghostwriter-wondered if he was getting read. To wangle fan mail, he offered a free champagne supper for the ten best lists of the top ten "glamor-pusses of 1946." (In his own, he tucked in Wife Eleanor Holm, onetime swimming champion.) His take in four days: 7,400 letters...
...routine assignment to every legman but the 18-year-old cub reporter from the Herald & Express. Just another murder-suicide of a lonely elderly couple in a Los Angeles hotel room. The cub, Phoebe Millicent Hearst, out on her first gory crime story, stared with elaborate calm at the bodies on the bed. Then she turned away to help brisk Agness Underwood, her tutor, rifle through the dresser drawers for pictures...