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At an editors' convention in Washington a few weeks ago, Chief Editorial Writer Lauren Soth of the Des Moines Register was taken aback by a colleague's question: Why doesn't the Register run anything about anti-Negro discrimination in Iowa? The questioner: Editor in Chief Grover...
Outmaneuvered. In the hours before the vote on overriding, a secondary political reaction began to set in. Congressmen with an ear cocked to the country began to hear editorial approval of the President's veto in such Midwestern cities as Milwaukee, Kansas City, Omaha and Chicago, and from such...
For a few heady moments last week, Democrats could close their eyes, open their ears and imagine that they were back in the good old days of 1948. Arriving in Des Moines for Iowa's Jackson Day dinner, that self-styled "political has-been," Harry Truman, grinned happily at...
As the U.S. Government's purchasing, housekeeping and property-managing agency, the General Services Administration has a multitude of business operations. Last week the GSA got a boss with experience in a multitude of business fields. Sworn in as General Services Administrator was big (6 ft. 3 in., 198...
The change apparently made Bob NBC's chief executive officer, the position that Weaver had once had. A native of Manhattan and a Harvard graduate ('39), Bob Sarnoff started to learn broadcasting as a Navy communications officer, later worked for the Des Moines Register and Look magazine, before...