Word: legmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the world, from alpine heights to sluggish deltas, and even down into the coralline depths of the Pacific, legmen for U.S. medicine were busy last week in a single-minded search. The objective: folk remedies, plants, lichens or marine slimes that might, through modern chemical analysis, yield useful drugs for treating man's ills, from toothache to cancer...
Though his men were forced to ferret out news crumbs from such peccable sources as a blind coffee vendor in the City Hall lobby, Journal Editor Gene ("Lucky") Farrell refused to knuckle under. Said he: "They can't live without us." Sending as many as five legmen at a time to prowl City Hall, and eking out their reports with wire-service coverage, Editor Farrell explored in acid detail such practices by inexperienced officials as heavy overpayment for a batch of air conditioners and the "economy" of firing 17 city attorneys and replacing them with 19 at the cost...
...will start out with the toll systems that go out on wires via telephone poles, and thus presumably elude control by FCC, which holds jurisdiction only over the airwaves. Pay TVmen are enthusiastic about the success of a cable test in Bartlesville, Okla. (TIME, Sept. 16). Skiatron has 60 legmen mapping every house in Los Angeles for wiring, and Telemeter expects to start wire TV in Los Angeles "in the very near future." If the wired systems pack in the viewers, pay TV may grow up in a hurry...
...columns each week, Gossipist Miller ticks off more than 300 names of celebrities against a catalogue of follies and foibles that range from adultery to vandalism. Yet Miller has never been horsewhipped or even sued for libel-probably because nobody takes him that seriously. He has no paid professional legmen, but he finds policemen "fantastic sources-after all, they've got eight hours to watch four blocks," and admits that press-agents give.him tips and check items for him on a quid pro quo basis. The quo: "Tickets for a play, or maybe a member of their family needs...
...fill the void, Boston radio and TV stations hired laid-off reporters and beefed up their newscasts, but still were without the legmen to give listeners more than fragmentary local news coverage. An outdoor advertising company teamed with WBZ-TV and WNAC-TV to spread an outsize Page One across two Boston Common billboards twice daily. Some of the most enterprising makeshift newspapers were put out for employees by Boston insurance companies. American Mutual Liability Insurance published a multilith bulletin under the slogan: ALL THE NEWS...