Word: newshens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early-morning plunges off the backyard riverbank. One morning an enterprising newspaper woman, Anne Royall, trapped President Adams in swimming, sat on his clothes and demanded an interview. In the buff and chin-deep in the water, Adams surrendered, and sounded off about the day's issues until Newshen Royall retreated with her story...
...tailed C-54 transport, landed 30 minutes late in a freezing rain at La Guardia Field. Official greeters swarmed all over them and pumped their hands while newsmen pumped their memories for details of their Greenland exploits. ("How did you find conditions on the icecap?" asked one blonde newshen.) In the background Air Force P.R.O.s worked diligently. The glory would not have been theirs to exploit had the Air Force been beaten to the rescue by the Navy's carrier Saipan...
...York Herald Tribune newshen happened on the story. Last June, scanning a list of magazines to which New York City's public schools were subscribing for the year, she saw that the Nation, 83-year-old journal of opinion, was among the missing. A little digging uncovered what the board of school superintendents had not announced. The board had voted not to renew its 18 Nation subscriptions, on the ground that the weekly (circ. 42,000) had printed articles by Paul Blanshard, onetime New York City commissioner of accounts, criticizing the Catholic Church's stand on fascism, science...
Reporter Tabouis, first French newshen to win the Legion's cross* and its little red ribbon, might have had her decoration twelve years ago. In 1936, her appointment had been approved by Léon Blum, then premier. But a few days before the ceremony his own paper, Le Populaire, attacked her as a secret supporter of Franco. So Mme. Tabouis wrote an angry letter telling Blum that she "was not accustomed to being caressed and beaten by the same hand, and didn't want to be decorated...
...conference room, Washington's women reporters filled the first two rows. (One newshen wore two huge orchids.) Clark Gable sat down uneasily before the audience of nearly 100, lit a cigaret, took a nervous sip of water. He was acutely aware that, whatever he had done, every hero who had held such press conferences before him had done much more...