Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shriners turned out to be less outraged at such peccadilloes than at the man who got them in the newspaper: Walter Fuller. And before long, from the throne in Lincoln, Neb., Imperial Potentate Clayton F. Andrews delivered an imperial decree. Charging Fuller with "conduct unbecoming a Noble," Andrews commanded Newsman Fuller to "show cause why you should not be disciplined or suspended as a Noble of the Mystic Shrine." Journalist Fuller manfully stuck to his guns. "My first duty," he said, "is to the News." But he was hurt and perplexed...
...finally sent his farm message to Congress last week, five days behind the original schedule, its mild tone buttressed rumors that the text had been drastically rewritten at the request of G.O.P. members of Congress, backed up by Vice President Nixon. At the President's press conference, a newsman asked about "the Vice President's role in reshaping the farm message." Replied Ike: "Well, this is the first time I have heard about him reshaping...
...James Gordon Bennett, arrived on the Washington scene in 1827. As special correspondent for the New York Enquirer, he quizzed administrative leaders, exposed corruption, and went to capital balls. Because of his partisanship to Andrew Jackson, he was fed the first official "leaks." He also became the first professional newsman to interview a President. "I went up to His Excellency," wrote Bennett after an audience with Martin Van Buren in 1839. "He held out his hand. It was soft and oily...
...part of Reston's success with sources-can be attributed to the fact that he represents that towering institution, the New York Times. But part of it is unquestionably due to Reston's great ability, industry and purpose. He is driven by the firm conviction that a newsman's duty is to dig out, expose and criticize the seeds of Government policy before they become policy-so that there may be genuine public debate. His deep, burning purpose is to favorably influence the course of important public events...
From Ordinary Stuff. James Barrett Reston's qualifications as a newsman are pure homespun, patiently and industriously loomed from quite ordinary stuff. Reston was born, the second child of James and Johanna Reston, in Clydebank, Scotland on Nov. 3, 1909. His father, a machinist, took the family to the U.S. in 1911, but returned to Scotland in a few months, after Mrs. Reston fell ill. They settled in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, in a "but and ben"-two rooms in a row of brick tenements on Gray Street, near the factory. The back parlor was used only on occasions such...