Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...improve the lot of the Star, then running third in a field of three dailies, Stuffy ordered lost-dog stories put on Page One. He had the disconcerting habit of stopping reporters on their way to the typewriter and asking to hear their story. As the newsman talked, a stenographer surreptitiously took down every word. Later, when the reporter turned in his story, Stuffy triumphantly flourished the steno's transcript. "That's the way it should have been written," he said. "Tell your story; don't write it." In two years, accelerated by such tactics, the Star...
After his fashion, Christiansen was also a conscientious newsman. During his years at the top, the Express bulletin board was splattered with exhortations to the staff to keep the COMMON TOUCH. Samples...
Died. Leo Samuel Levy, 75, crusty, sardonic newsman, who set an unofficial and perhaps unapproachable editorial record by surviving for 50 years as managing editor of the Oakland Tribune, where his hard-driven staff always respectfully addressed him as "Mr. Levy"; of a heart attack; in Orinda, Calif...
...Communist gang." Remarked a high-ranking Venezuelan official: "Kennedy is not crazy or stupid. Every country has the right to give its sympathy to whomever it wants and to help whomever it wishes." Reflecting the thoughts of most of his colleagues, an Indian Cabinet minister said to a U.S. newsman: "We realize that you have to take certain actions for your own security, but we hope you hurry up and get it over with...
...ironically surrounding it with bourgeois trappings. Petitions were drawn up to rename a Moscow square after the cosmonaut. A glacier was given his name. An already prepared issue of a commemorative stamp began to roll off the presses. Reporters worked overtime to introduce him to his countrymen. One ebullient newsman described him as having "a kind Russian face, with eyes well separated." Another, who interviewed Gagarin soon after landing, seemed so dazzled by the new national hero that he wrote: "His eyes were shining as though still reflecting spatial starlight." A nationwide hookup broadcast a telephone conversation between "Gaga...