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...Lyndon Johnson as "the ablest and strongest" candidate for the Democratic nomination, reserved decision on a Republican choice "until a later day when, and if, a contest develops." The ultraconservative Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader also gave Johnson a curt nod as its favorite Democrat. And Long Island's Newsday, one of the first U.S. dailies to come out for Adlai Stevenson in 1956, was early again in 1960-plumping for a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket...
...from such pundits as Walter Lippmann (March 30, 1931 and Sept. 27, 1937) to such scriveners as Walter Winchell (July 11, 1938); from such publishers as the New York Daily News's Joseph Patterson (May 7, 1928) to his daughter Alicia of Long Island's Newsday (Sept. 13, 1954). This week, in U.S. Presidential Election Year 1960, TIME'S cover tells the story of a reportorial breed to whom politics is meat, potatoes and sweet elixir. This is the story of the Washington press corps and its leading member: James ("Scotty") Reston, the Washington correspondent...
According to the charges filed, Harris, a good reporter-rewriteman (New York Daily News) turned public relations man, last month approached Long Island Newsday Reporter Robert W. Greene with a proposition. A Harris client-John J. O'Rourke, boss of the New York Teamsters-was up for trial on a charge of jukebox racketeering. Greene had already been assigned to cover the trial, and by his account, Curly Harris, who is also a press-agent for Jimmy Hoffa, suggested that it might be worth $5,000 to Greene if he wrote gently about O'Rourke...
...Island Newsday-before vanishing from public view into an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side. This week, having dangled an irresistible bait, the Washington Post and Times Herald announced that it had lured Cartoonist Duffy, 60, out of hiding...
...stop kept all but a handful of newsmen beyond earshot; in desperation the press corps resorted to a revolving pool system, generously shared notes and observations in a sort of socialized journalism. Leggy ex-Model Jinx Falkenburg, who came along as a correspondent accredited to Long Island's Newsday, reached Novosibirsk before her luggage, bravely showed up at the ballet theater in panties and a raincoat securely belted to hide the absence of skirt...