Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forecast. In Manhattan, newsmen who had tramped through a sleet-and-rain-storm to cover the 101st national meeting of the American Meteorological Society reported that most of the 200-odd delegates had come without galoshes or raincoats...
Between chores, newsmen called their families to break the bad news. Some began dialing other papers for jobs. But for many of the editorial crew of 101 it would be a tough winter; other Manhattan newspapers were in a cost-cutting mood...
Actually, Nite Life had the cold dope on Freddie. Like other newsmen, Examiner Managing Editor William C. Wren had known for two years about his columnist's record, but he had not been disturbed. But at week's end, the column vanished from the Examiner. The order to fire Freddie Francisco, said Hearstlings, came from the Chief himself...
...Countess Felicia Gizycka's suit to break the will of her mother, Publisher Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Times-Herald (TIME, Sept. 27). It promised to rattle many a family skeleton. But one afternoon last week just twelve days before the trial date, attorneys for the Countess summoned newsmen. They were handed an announcement of an agreement by all parties to settle out of court...
...first high tea Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria had served in years. Near the tea cozies, where U.S. newsmen juggled their cups a bit awkwardly, stood three new 1949-model Morris cars. Peppery Viscount Nuffield, Britain's biggest motormaker, had sent them over by the Queen Mary as an opening bid for the U.S. market and as an answer to an old antagonist...