Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jack Lait, editor of the New York Daily Mirror, and his nightclub columnist Lee Mortimer are old hands at libel. In their first three "Confidential" books they picked up no fewer than six libel suits.* By last week their latest slapdash gutter-side view of America, U.S.A. Confidential (TIME, March 17), was well on its way to outstripping the other three. A $1,000,000 suit brough by Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith, for bringing her into "scandals as an associate of and sympathizer with Communists," was the sixth in three months. The others...
...John M. Hightower, 42, chief diplomatic correspondent. A quiet, modest reporter, Hightowers levelheaded coverage of the State Department is so good that in the past month he also won the Raymond Clapper Award and Sigma Delta Chi's prize for outstanding coverage. ¶For cartooning, New York Daily Mirror's Fred L. Packer, whose winning cartoon (TIME, Oct. 15) lampooned Truman's confusing press conference remarks about the press handling of classified information. Its caption: "Your editors ought to have more sense than to print what...
...similar case recently (TIME, March 10), police warned New York Mirror Photographer Bob Wendlinger that he would be arrested if he took flashlight pictures of a man hanging by his hands from Manhattan's George Washington Bridge. Just after the man let go, the photographer got his picture...
Despite the troubles, those willing to spend money on TV coverage think the results are worth it, especially as advertisers snap up TV news shows. The Los Angeles Times's and the Mirror's KTTV has one of the most energetic newspaper-owned TV news setups in the U.S., including fourteen staffers and camera crews. It thinks $5,470 a week for TV news-gathering is well spent. One of its best local stunts: when a three-year-old girl disappeared recently, the station assigned four cameras (TV and newsreel) to the hunt. Three followed the search party...
...Sunday spot will be taken by Columnist Drew Pearson. Winchell still collects on a separate lifetime contract for an undisclosed amount with ABC. No one could say when he would return to either his broadcast or his newspaper column. Said Executive Editor Glenn Neville of the New York Mirror, Winchell's home paper: "All we know is there's nothing organically wrong with him. He's fatigued and exhausted. We're just waiting for him to come back, although we've no idea when that will...