Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made more news than anyone else, and deserved the extensive pla'y he received. His well-lubricated public-relations machine was also stunningly effective in wooing newsmen. Long before Los Angeles, reporters discovered that Kennedy's able and imaginative aides were ever ready to accommodate a soliciting newsman with inside stories, exclusives and audiences with the leader. Said Kennedy Press Secretary Pierre Salinger: "Most of the press covered the convention by camping on my doorstep...
...Snow his visa, though it has rejected countless applications from other newsmen over the past few years. "The speed," said the State Department, "speaks for itself." Lest anyone think that Snow's case might set a precedent, the Chinese explained that Snow was not in China as a newsman at all. He was there merely as the guest of a friend, New Zealand Expatriate and longtime Chinese Communist Propagandist Rewi Alley, with whom Snow is staying in Peking...
...nimbus of reflected light. He neither smokes nor drinks, goes to church 200 times a year, is married to a church organist, and reads the Scriptures to his two young daughters. Taft's calling is not spiritual, except at one remove. Adon Taft, 34, is a working newsman and one of the nation's best in his field: he is religion editor of the Miami Herald (circ...
...Strength. This week Ike, tanned and relaxed from a six-day golfing stopover in Hawaii, flew back to Washington. He had sent word ahead that he wanted no big welcoming. Nonetheless, upwards of 200 greeters were at the airport. "How was your trip, Mr. President?" asked a newsman. "Pretty good," said...
...they can't make a story out of something, I do it myself." As long as such obliging journalism remains in the travel sections of U.S. newspapers, the travel editor will never take his most important journey: to the realm of the let-the-chips-fall working newsman...