Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something New. Harry Truman was not ready for any serious political pronouncements. He dropped in at the press lounge several times, once to invite newsmen to take a swim with him. Someone asked if he would hold a press conference. "Not if I can help it," he declared promptly. When urged, he added: "Well, maybe, if you can think of some questions-and let me ask them." On his last visit, his Jeff Davis beard was gone. Bess Truman and Margaret were arriving that day, he explained...
...infirm that they hardly seemed to know what was happening. When quiet, grey ex-Premier Koki Hirota heard his death sentence, he closed his eyes, then turned to look at his weeping family in the gallery. It was the last time he would see them. Japanese newsmen, who had not expected death for Hirota, murmured: "Hidoi! Hidoi!" (harsh, harsh...
...inside the stadium itself the varsity worked out doggedly and quietly before 57,000 empty seats, oblivious of the cheers and yells outside. It was the same routine the squad had run through every Friday afternoon all season, and only the presence of a few more newsmen and a few more workers on the roof denoted the biggest of all days ahead...
...fellowships. Publishers like Arthur Sulzberger, Joseph Pulitzer, Mrs. Helen Reid, Marshall Field, John and Gardner Cowles have all come to Cambridge. John Dos Passos, Bernard DeVoto, and Lewis Mumford have represented authors; working correspondents like William Shirer, John Gunther, Arthur Krock, and Vincent Sheean keep the vacationing newsmen up to date...
...pattern of Nieman Fellowships is still flexible. In ten years the Foundation has developed a workable pattern for operation; but Louis Lyons would be the first to assert that lack of rigid pattern is one of the biggest advantages for the vacationing newsmen...