Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the Gridiron Club plug at his midweek press conference. Said Ike: "If anyone is wondering whether I have any personal preference or even bias with respect to this upcoming presidential race, the answer is yes, very definitely." As if that was not clear enough to all present, another newsman asked later on if the President had meant Vice President Nixon. Retorted Ike: "Was there any doubt in your mind...
...children to Pago Pago. There, last month, convinced that his alarm signals about leprosy were getting no results. Dr. Donohugh decided to throw his Navy training to the winds. Instead of proceeding only through channels, he labeled his charges "for wider dissemination" and slipped a copy to a newsman. What happened after that would have been grist for Somerset Maugham to grind out a sequel to Rain...
Died. Walter Yust, 65, tall, stooped, onetime newsman (Philadelphia Evening Ledger and Press) and literary editor (Philadelphia Public Ledger), longtime (from 1938 to last month) editor in chief of all Encyclopaedia Britannica publications; of a heart attack; in Evanston...
...Indolent. Newsman Benson had come by his noteworthy story, published in seven World-Telegram installments, with remarkable ease. Last December he got an advice-seeking telephone call from a friend who, after answering a want ad in the New York Times, had had an offer of $18 to ghostwrite a term paper for a Manhattan college student. Benson decided to follow up. Posing as a well-educated chap named Mike Benson, he got in touch with the agency that had hired his friend, also sent letters to nine other agencies advertising in the Sunday Times. Benson's first overture...
...College: "The general moral tone in our country is tending to encourage this sort of thing. It is a little like our attitude toward the income tax-if you can get by with it, it is all right." Columbia might have been equally concerned at the facility with which Newsman Benson, himself an admittedly indifferent undergraduate student (Class of '49, with a C-plus average, at New York City's Queens College), sailed through an exam beamed at graduate students. Said Ghost-Scholar Benson, who wrote an A-minus test paper: "It was a cinch...