Word: legmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power of Winchell as columnist and Sunday radioracle. And the paper, which has boosted circulation by 35,000 (to 425,000) by the series, expects a counterattack soon, perhaps on Wechsler, an anti-Communist who was once a college Red. Says Jimmy Wechsler: "I hear Winchell's legmen are already working on my WWrongos...
...Other Winchells. The busiest of these unpaid, unsung legmen, as the Post tells it, are Pressagents Ed Weiner, Curt Weinberg and Irving Hoffman. Weiner is the columnist's "lobbyist, contact-man, straight-man-about-town"; Hoffman is a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter; Weinberg was Singer Josephine Baker's drum beater until the Stork Club incident, then Weinberg hastily dropped her. Also chased from the Winchell closet was another figure that few other ghosts even knew about: Herman Klurfeld, 35, who sticks close to his Long Island home and is paid a reported $250 a week by Winchell...
During the next three days Reporter Clark slept only five hours, while he wrote some 14 columns of fast-breaking news for the Star and its sister paper (morning), the Times. At the rewrite desk he took calls from 48 legmen who blanketed the city. When they came slopping into the office, he cornered them for more details of their particular beats. With an eye on the flood query wired to him by TIME, he also kept in touch with city and Army engineers and with Red Cross headquarters, dug up accounts of previous floods from the morgue. By Saturday...
Citizen Journalists. Today an alltime high of 31 correspondents keep TIME editors posted on news events between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn. Five are staff correspondents based in our four Latin American news bureaus. They are assisted by five "legmen," each a citizen of the country where his bureau is located. The other 21 are string correspondents. These journalists, many of whom are pictured on the map below, cable some 19,000 words of news research to us each week. Eleanor Welch, Assistant Chief of Foreign Correspondents and a veteran reporter herself, keeps in constant touch with them...
...reported in the Courier-Journal that Pearson had gone off half-cocked on some loosely assembled, unchecked information. Pearson had reported that his "facts" had been "dug up" by the U.S. Children's Bureau; Day found that one of Pearson's legmen had dug them from recollections of bureau workers...