Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, terms the theory of it "living as a basis for education." What it amounts to mechanically is that three men--Curator Louis Lyons, Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Secretary to the Corporation David W. Bailey '21--filter over 100 applications every year to select about a dozen working newsmen for Fellowships...
...South, the Dixiecrats were scrambling for cover. Over the flat cotton lands rose the wail of countless Dixiecrats protesting that they had considered themselves Democrats all along. Candidate J. Strom Thurmond wired Truman: "You are entitled to the united support of a united people," then quickly explained to newsmen that "the fight was within our own family...
Never had the U.S. press been so wrong on the outcome of a national election. Partisanship was not the answer, though 65% of the press had supported Tom Dewey (see below). Many of the newspapers, columnists and newsmen who had supported President Truman had been just as wrong. The press had compiled an anthology of error that it should not forget. Some of the dreadful examples...
...Happy Few. When the long night was over, all but a few red-eyed newsmen were red-faced too. The New York Star's Jennings Perry could point with pride to an almost-right October column titled "It's Closer Than You Think." In the small Garden City (Kans.) Telegram (circ. 5,238), Columnist (and publisher) Gervais F. Reed had piped that Dewey would be upset. And on Oct. 25 the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier (circ. 4,720) had said that, thanks to a divine power, the President would be "sustained in office." (The publisher's wife...
...good Communist, and an executive of the Czechoslovak Press Bureau, Jiri Hronek continually wondered how the press might be improved. Last week delegates to a Czech newsmen's congress in Prague found that Hronek had worked out a program to make the Czechoslovakian press perfect-in the same sense as the Russian press is perfect. Excerpts from his statement in the Communist weekly Tvorba (Construction) as reported by the Associated Press...