Word: newshen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faithful Republican Wheaton, the job was a reward for years of service to the Republican high command. Born in Utica, N.Y., Annie became a newshen for the Albany Knickerbocker Press, started out covering the women's page, eventually took over the legislative beat. In 1924 she moved to Washington as public-relations director for the League of Women Voters, became so involved and well known in political circles that ultimately she took charge of press relations for Mrs. Wendell Willkie, Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey (twice) and Mamie Eisenhower during their husbands' presidential campaigns...
...Ladies' Home Journal, Newshen Margaret Parton, after a studious survey of some mountains of gold, announced a list of the U.S.'s ten richest men and her estimates of their fortunes: No. 1: Texas' bachelor Wheeler-Dealer Sid W. Richardson, 65, $700 million. No. 2: Aluminum Co. of America's Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, 89 and now a bustling Florida realty tycoon, $450 million. No. 3: Ford Motor Co.'s President Henry Ford II, 39, $400 million. Tied for No. 4: Sun Oil Co.'s publicity-shy Board Chairman Joseph Newton...
Next day Wilson's wife Jessie, just back from the Washington hospital where she underwent treatment for an ulcer, spoke up with a frankness worthy of her husband. She was "indignant" about the President's comment, she told the Washington Star's enterprising Newshen Isabelle Shelton. "I think the President should have stood back of Mr. Wilson instead of spending his time commenting on how wonderful Foster Dulles has been. I think Foster Dulles is a good man too, but I don't think that he has done any better than a lot of other...
Born. To Gregory Peck, 40, lanky cinemactor (Moby Dick), and Véronique Passani, 24, onetime Parisian newshen: a son, their first child (his fourth); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anthony. Weight...
...Hollywood, outraged Newshen Hedda Hopper decried the fact that Clark Gable's contract had a clause inserted in 1935 (before TV was born) permitting the studio eventually to release all of Gable's movies to TV, tut-tutted: "How will our motion-picture theaters compete with TV showing Garbo, Gable, Garland and all the Barrymores in the greatest pictures ever made...