Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, beefy, blue-eyed Tighe (rhymes with buy) Woods invited newsmen to his air-conditioned Washington office and shyly announced that he had a surprise for them: he had built a house to sell for $6,750, including a ½-acre lot and a septic tank. Explained Woods: "I thought it was about time somebody did something about housing the guy who makes $50 a week. The building industry told me it couldn't be done, so I decided to find out for myself...
...When the newsmen went to see the house, out in the nearby Virginia woods, they found a plain 14 ft. 8½ in. by 36 ft. 8¼ in. structure, of plywood walls inside and redwood walls outside, insulated with aluminum foil and wool. Besides picture windows and a cozy fireplace, the house has a small bedroom separated by a draw curtain from the living room. The living room can also be converted into a second bedroom. The house is heated by a system of glass-radiant heaters that plug into sockets, throw off infra-red rays which warm...
...newsmen agreed that, while it was not much bigger than a dollhouse, it was attractive and well built. Georgia's salty old Congressman Carl Vinson, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, had a more positive reaction. Vinson's committee was studying a bill to spend an average of $16,500 apiece for houses for 7,798 armed services families. After a look at Woods's house, the Congressman demanded: "How come the Army needs $16,000 if another Government official...
Henderson, who knew many of the newsmen from the days when he ran the State Department's Near East desk, talked over old times with the New York Times's Bertram Hulen (veteran of 23 years on the State Department beat), TIME'S Jack Werkley, Business Week's Thomas Falco, WOR's Pulitzer-prizewinning H. R. Knickerbocker...
From boyhood, handsome, wry John Gerard (Jack) Werkley wanted to be a reporter. Born 36 years ago in Paterson, N.J., at 17 he got his chance on the Paterson Evening News. Later, at the Missouri School of Journalism, he unofficially majored in the lives of great newsmen. Then, for seven years, he was a reporter for the Associated Press and the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman...