Word: legman
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...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...
...never stopped running. A year after he ran into the boss, supercharged Louis Seltzer was city editor of the Press. At 20, having proved that he could hold the job, he quit it to get more experience as a legman and political reporter. (In 1924, covering the Democratic Convention, he got an 18-day scoop on the nomination of John W. Davis.) He knew his town like a well-thumbed diary when he became the Press's editor at 30. He also well remembered Founder Scripps's publishing maxim: "Stay close to the people...