Word: legman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First U. S. legman was a ship-news reporter, one Samuel Topliff Jr. A Boston coffeehouse proprietor, who kept a "news book" of recent happenings for the enlightenment of his patrons, hired young Topliff in 1811 to round up items. Reporter Topliff hired a boat, rowed down the harbor to meet incoming ships, got his news fresh from the passengers before they landed. Six New York City dailies later followed suit, outfitted a harbor boat, started a news pool. They called it The Associated Press, and it was the predecessor of Victor Lawson's agency...
Last week, to the vexation of Cordell Hull, the U. S. legman in France, hottest news spot in the world last week, was sending no news whatever: he was practically incommunicado...
...Though Legman Archie Goodwin is on hand, Wolfe this time actually goes out of his house. Murders and flowers...