Word: legman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Handholding. Though Lolly has five assistants, she is still her own best legman, gleans most of her items from the ceaseless jangle of CR 1-4222, from her nightly round of parties, openings and dinners, and from rumors and tips phoned her by ingratiating pressagents and later nailed down by Lolly's direct confrontation with the parties involved...
Strategy & Hope. In The Making of the President, Theodore White abandons his unhappy sortie into fiction (The View from the Fortieth Floor) and returns to a field he knows intimately: factual reporting. For more than a year, White, assisted by a legman, roamed the nation on the trail of the seven men who openly aspired to the presidency. For details and events he inevitably missed, he mined the published stories of a thousand reporters. White has used his material well. The campaign of 1960 is recaptured in all its detail and excitement, and White manages to tell his story with...
...called him "the most brilliant student I ever had." Then he sailed a few miles down the Charles River to M.I.T. to help edit the letters of Theodore Roosevelt under Historian Elting E. Morison, won his reporter's ribbon in 1950 as a State Department legman for pugnacious. New-Dealing, syndicated Columnist Robert S. Allen, with whom he co-authored The Truman Merry-Go-Round. A year later, he moved to the Post's Washington bureau as a reporter...
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Formula for good press relations passed along by Old Reporter John Kennedy to members of his Cabinet last week: a public official's best friend is the "legman" who covers the regular beat; there is more press mileage to be gained by slipping news nuggets to legmen than to columnists or editors...