Word: legman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words. Minutes later, City Press had the first flash on Howey's beat-'the great Iroquois Theater fire, in which about 600 died. Hildy Johnson, the star reporter of the Chicago Herald-Examiner and The Front Page, scored a string of courtroom beats as a City Press legman by holding a stethoscope to the paper-thin walls of Chicago jury rooms. He got the eavesdropped verdicts to his city desk before the foreman handed them to the judge. Playwright Charles MacArthur, who with Ben Hecht wrote The Front Page, also did his stint on City Press...
...time, the Bursar's Office was temporarily installed in the Varsity Club, having just previously been burned out of its location in Dane Hall (where Lehman now stands). The thieves broke in on a Monday night, and four days later an alert CRIMSON legman reported the incident...
...with just the right sound of bursting fruit, and he can nail his types with the deftness of a bartender spearing a cherry with a toothpick. Says one of his newspaper executives, nodding toward his wife and suggesting another round of drinks: "I have an old beat-up legman here, or legwoman, rather, who helps me with odds and ends around the house, such as bearing children, finding collar buttons, and making drinks for guests. How about...
...makes it a practice to pump other newsmen and print what they heard. Last week he broadcast a partly accurate, partly distorted version of Secretary Marshall's views on China, which had been given in confidence to reporters in a Statler hotel room. (A Pearson legman had bragged in advance that he would find out what Marshall said.) To some extent Pearson is thus endangering the whole system of off-the-record conferences that help newsmen interpret the news. But Pearson argues, with considerable cogency, that most of the information should not be off the record in the first...
...CRIMSON lineup: le, Bailiff; it, S. D. Riterson; lg, G. G. Henpeckd; c, I. Got Mellingor; rg, Paul Sack '48; rt, S. W. or R. A. Green; re, Tow L. Joque; qb, A. P. Farb; tb, Fiend; fb, O.K. Prat; wb, Legman M. Davis...