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...Czar Nicholas II and family. But Ackerman's greatest contribution was at Columbia, where he transformed an undistinguished school into a premier training ground for his profession. Journalism's best-known figures (among them, Walter Lippmann, Alexander Woollcott and Douglas Southall Freeman) came to lecture; working newsmen were brought in to teach copy editing, headline writing, editorial and magazine writing, and photography. The creation of a first-class newsroom gave students a sense of the pace and tension on a big-city daily...
...announced in London by Pierre Salinger, one of Gramco's top officers. Salinger, still sporting a PT-109 tie clasp from the Kennedy years, also suggested that offshore funds need more official regulation. Speaking of the offshore fund business and some of his competitors in it, Salinger told newsmen: "Jesus, that is a rough game. They spend more time knifing each other than any bunch I've ever seen...
...gave him what were surely the most angry looks of the night when he elected to conduct his conference on the lawn of newly planted, fenced-off sod next to the CFIA. But the B and G men restrained themselves from interfering with the horde of sod-trampling newsmen who walked over to hear the former Solicitor General's statement...
...even changed his own plans and decided to accompany Nixon on a visit to Kumrovec, where Tito and his 14 brothers and sisters (none of whom survive) were all born in the same bed in a white stucco house. Asking Tito to walk among the villagers while photographers and newsmen watched, Nixon said: "We've got to get this place...
...partial picture of the fighting. Some of us also kept diaries of life inside "Stalag Intercontinental." In the occasional lulls, the sound of typewriters could be heard all over the building. Friendly embassies accepted some pool copy when we could get it to them. But not until the first newsmen were evacuated from the Jordanian capital last week were we able to fulfill our assignments: to write our own stories of the battle for Amman...