Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Sims finally speaks, it is hardly a reprieve. He is contemptuous of reporters and of the general public; he has toyed with both since he arrived here two days ago on a fund-raising tour. At his press conference Wednesday, a newsman asked, "Have you ever been arrested...
Deep Recall. As in most press-fueled controversies, the facts were largely obscured by the furor. Last week's free-for-all started with an article in Look in which CBS Newsman Eric Sevareid described-as he had on TV last summer-a conversation that he had with Adlai Stevenson shortly before his death. In a section buried deep in the article, Sevareid recalled that Stevenson had talked of behind-the-scenes arrangements made by U.N. Secretary-General U Thant in the early fall of 1964 to have a North Vietnamese emissary and a U.S. delegate open talks...
...mailed in Detroit and addressed simply to "Duffy the Dope"), and students have naturally hanged him in effigy. Daugherty has taken it all with rare humor. "A football coach's main problem," he shrugs, "is that he is responsible to irresponsible people." He once confided to a newsman: "Look, I have a couple of big freshmen linemen preparing for a special job. At the end of the game, win or lose, they are going to hoist me to their shoulders and carry me off the field. Then fans in the stands will say: There goes Duffy again. He might...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Little Boy Lost (Paramount 1953), with Bing Crosby and Claude Dauphin in a story about an American newsman searching Paris for the son he lost during World War II. Color...
...better than the Quai. It is a well-oiled machine. The right things go to the right places." U.S. consulates are widely praised for courtesy and efficiency. "If you want to know what's going on anywhere in Africa, ask at the American embassy," says a veteran European newsman who covers that continent. The American Legion, once prone to find State "soft on Communism," last year investigated and concluded that "the nation can place much confidence" in the department. State's people savor such compliments-because they have been accustomed to hearing memorably vivid criticism...