Word: legmen
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Easy-going Marvin McCarthy, a Finnegan man, stayed on as managing editor. Scores of Sun legmen, columnists and correspondents were axed; overseas, only faithful Frederick Kuh was left...
Manhattan's press used to cover opening nights at the Metropolitan Opera with awed respect, hat-in-hand. It took a man standing on his head at the Met to show tabloid editors what they had been missing. So last week 80 photographers, columnists, society reporters and legmen, not counting the critics, moved in on the opening. They saw plenty. And-except for the well-bred school (Times, Herald Tribune and Sun)-they told...
Legs for the Empire's Voice. Ep Hoyt had adopted Bonfils' proprietary feeling about the Rocky Mountain area (the Post calls itself "The Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire"). Soon he will have legmen in all of the empire's 13 states. Come the days of unlimited paper, Hoyt expects to reach unimpeded as far as Canada to the north, Mexico to the south; east until he bumps the Kansas City Star, west until he shares newsstand space with the workmanlike Salt Lake City Telegram...
...deskmen were hoarse from answering readers' tips. Haggard, red-eyed city editors, living on the brink of collapse and in constant fear of being scooped, deployed every available man, woman and copy boy on the story. Wherever the state's attorney or defense attorney went, squads of legmen went...
...picked as follows: some 14,000 listeners to the Quiz Kids radio program nominated a favorite teacher, giving their written reasons.* A girl and a boy voted for Mrs. Binker. Three college professors picked the seven best letters, then sent out legmen to see the seven teachers...