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When the news broke on Wednesday, the correspondents were already deep into their reporting. Simmons Fentress was at the White House to gauge the presidential reaction and future course. Neil MacNeil, chief congressional correspondent, was busy interviewing Kentucky's Marlow Cook and other crucial Senators. John Austin, who covers Congress with MacNeil, focused his reporting on Indiana's Birch Bayh, leader of the Carswell opposition. Dean Fischer, the bureau's legal expert, was in the Justice Department interviewing one of Attorney General John Mitchell's key aides. John Stacks was soon probing Senate attitudes toward...
...didn't pass the standards that I'd set with Judge Haynsworth," Cook, 43, told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil. "I'm a lawyer. I'd wanted to be one all my life, ever since I was a kid. The Supreme Court is something to me which is so awe-inspiring that I want to dedicate myself to seeing that the court gets back to the greatness it once...
English Novels. Whatever the merits of the symposium, the richly marbled and mainly unused library still stands as an expensive testimonial to Dormann's sense of grandeur. On a visit last week, TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil found that the sixth floor contains what was meant to be the presidential bedroom. Lacking Presidents who want to sleep there, it has been converted into a conference area called "The Teddy Roosevelt Room"; it has a moosehead. The fourth floor contains the library's microfilm collection; it occupies a single drawer and consists of copied George Washington papers. There are three...
Died. Doris Doscher Baum, 88, former actress who in 1916 posed for Hermon Atkins MacNeil's Miss Liberty 25-cent piece; in Farmingdale, N.Y. A sparkling, blonde beauty who also posed for Karl Bitter's sculpture Diana, Mrs. Baum was chosen to model for the quarter because, as MacNeil put it, she exemplified "the highest type of American womanhood...
Died. Neil MacNeil, 78, author and assistant night managing editor of the New York Times from 1930 to 1951; of uremic poisoning; in Southampton, N.Y. MacNeil was one of the paper's key executives during his 21 years on the night news desk, where he determined what news was fit to print and how prominently. Among his books were An American Peace, which foreshadowed the Marshall Plan, and Without Fear or Favor, a classic study of big-city journalism. After retiring from the Times in 1951, he became co-author of The Hoover Report...