Word: newshen
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...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...
...lack bothered Athlyn Deshais, a conscientious newshen who runs the Chicago Daily News's lively society page. Last month Athlyn decided that, since no bona fide doyenne was in sight, she had better arrange to have one chosen-by democratic referendum, of course. Just before Christmas she sent out ballots to 2,000 pedigreed socialites, to elect a new queen. Society reacted with murmurs of pleasure and squeals of outrage. Just about 50% of Athlyn's 2,000 sent in their ballots. Day after day, the News breathlessly reported the latest tabulations. Thirty-five of Chicago...
Whoever thought a Lucy Stoner would be so being girlishly called a sensitive as "newshen" Jane [TIME, Grant Letters, about Dec. 21]? Newshen is one of the cleverest coined words. Short, flattering. To adults it connotes a plump, toothsome chick (no newspaperwoman I ever saw) in fine, glossy feathers (ditto). Stepping high and daintily, she delicately picks the wheat from the chaff...
...Also, if newshen is supposed to be female for newshawk-well, you should call the fellow in charge of hawks at the Museum of Natural History. He says . . . the word falcon once was the English term for the female hawk. However, falconry now covers a family of hunting hawks, and a female hawk is simply called a female hawk. So futurely, if male reporters are to be known in TIME as newshawks, let's refer to the opposite species as female newshawks...