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...FRIEND TONY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). James Whitmore is a scientific crime fighter, and John Woodruff and Enzo Cerusico are his legmen in the premiere of this new mystery comedy series...
...must print the news while it is still breaking. "A new paper, while close to the Herald Tribune in style, would have to be quicker," says James Bellows, the Trib's last editor, who is now associate editor of the Los Angeles Times. Instead of hiring worn-out legmen as rewrite men, says onetime Trib Editor John Denson, who is now executive editor of Atlas magazine, the paper should seek out specialists with enough knowledge at their command to put a story in context...
...really married if it hasn't been noted in Figaro," is a familiar quip. A 37-year-old boulevardier and gossip columnist named Philippe Bouvard cruises Paris in a Citroen equipped with television and a telephone. As he picks up tips, he phones any of 15 legmen and women to follow them up. "Before, only a name was enough," says Bouvard. "Now you need a name and a good story...
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...
...magic numbers were going all his way. By 9 p.m. Humphrey held a 6,500-vote lead over his rival Jack Kennedy. In his Pfister Hotel suite, Kennedy slumped in a chair watching television; Brother Bob hovered anxiously over a telephone, jotting down the reports of local legmen. Then, slowly, the numbers began to change, and by 11 p.m. Kennedy was out in front. At that point, only one thing was certain: placid Wisconsin had been so churned by the campaign that an unprecedented 1,192,398 citizens had gone to the polls in a primary where voters can freely...