Word: newshen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union's lissome Galina Ulanova, 44, a celebrated ballerina who also nimbly toes the political line, gave an audience to the New York Herald Tribune's comely Newshen Marguerite Higgins, who opened the conversation by asking: "Has your career . . . brought you happiness...
White House, was pinned down by a newshen, cajoled into admitting that next spring he will marry (his second) ex-Model Ruth Sublette, 27, an editor of Glamour magazine...
...airwaves crackled with the promise of choice entertainment; but, as usual, the promise was mostly unfulfilled. Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith returned from a brief trip to Russia and checked in with Ed Murrow and See It Now (CBS-TV). Ex-Newshen Smith reported little that was new, concluded: "The Soviet leaders smile only with their faces-never with their hearts; the little people smile with their hearts-when they get a chance to do so." Historian Arnold Toynbee showed up on the usually exhilarating radio show Conversation (NBC) to discuss "My Favorite Era," but offered nothing...
...Britain, many newspapers are so intimidated by the tight libel laws that they hastily retract stories when threatened with a libel suit. Last week Fleet Streeters saluted one scrappy British newshen who gave British newspapers a lesson in the importance of standing behind the stories they print. In court, Feature Writer Honor Tracy, 38, won a case against Lord Kemsley's Sunday Times* (circ. 531,566) after the paper settled a libel suit before trial and printed an apology for an article she had written. The Sunday Times apology, she charged, sold her "down the river" by implying that...
...newshen's query about the possibility of a woman becoming President drew a smile and a smooth riposte from Ike. Out of his deep respect for women's intelligence, he said, as well as his admiration for their many other qualities, he might reach the conclusion that they had too much sense to want...