Word: newsbeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broadcasting company (NBC's Meet the Press). Editors are particularly pained at picking up news stories developed by local TV stations. In Chicago some rewritemen still invoke the old unwritten city-room rule to omit the names of the show and the station on which a local TV newsbeat originated...
...Died. James Leslie (Jim) Marshall, 65, onetime Collier's Far East correspondent, who got a resounding newsbeat (and a crippled arm, damaged vocal cords) in 1937 when he mooched a ride on the U.S. Navy gunboat Panay just before Japanese dive bombers sank it in the Yangtze River; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif...
Died. Anthony Harry (Tony) Leviero, 50, hard-plugging New York Times Washington correspondent (at the White House and Pentagon), who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Administration-leaked newsbeat on President Truman's 1950 Wake Island meeting with General MacArthur; of a heart attack; in Pittsfield, Mass...
Died. Camilla Maximilian Cianfarra. 49, topflight New York Times correspondent (Rome, 1935-41 and 1946-51; Mexico City, 1942-46; Madrid since 1951). who in 1949 scored a world newsbeat on the Vatican archaeologists' claim to have found St. Peter's tomb beneath the cathedral's high altar in Rome; in the collision-sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, off Nantucket (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Misgivings. On Page One the paper confessed: "Seasoned and mature editors [have] been duped . . . The Herald-American apologizes to its readers for being misled . . . by a seasoned, mature newsman [who] had 'cracked up' and fallen for the lure of a false newsbeat...