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Word: newsman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder if there have been any discussions of a successor to Adlai Stevenson?" a newsman asked bluntly just 24 hours after Stevenson's sudden death. Had George Reedy still been White House Press Secretary, such a query would have probably drawn a curt "No comment"-plus a suggestion, perhaps, that it was indelicate in its timing. But Bill Moyers, only a week in the job, took a puff on a slim cigar and answered evenly that the President had already talked over possible replacements with his staff and would not fill the post until after the funeral services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Candor at the White House | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

Advantage of Intimacy. Once Reedy quit to undergo a series of foot operations, the President set out to repair his tattered press relations by putting one of his most trusted aides in the job. While only briefly a newsman, Moyers, at 31, has worked for Johnson in one way or another for most of the last eleven years. A graduate of the University of Texas and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas, he served as deputy director of the Peace Corps before he moved into the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Candor at the White House | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...want to be mayor?" another newsman inquired. "I've never considered it," Buckley grinned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: A Different Kind of Candidate | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...usual when Beatrix flew off to ski at Gstaad in February. After all, a highly eligible bachelor, Rhenish Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 30, was going to be there too. With him was a minor German diplomat, Claus von Amsberg, 38. "I do not understand," one puzzled newsman soon wired Amsterdam. "This Richard always skis alone, while Beatrix goes out and drinks in nightclubs with this fellow Claus Watsisname." Cabled his impatient editor: "Leave that fellow Claus. He is unimportant, he is a commoner, he is no match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Prince Watsisname | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...wheelbarrow around, guess what Sister Luci Baines was doing for wheels back in Washington: varooming through town in a new 350-h.p. Corvette Sting Ray, a high-school graduation birthday present (she turns 18 July 2) from her parents. "How do you like your new car?" asked an imaginative newsman as she sat revving the engine. Cooed Luci: "How would you like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

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