Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready to leave this week on a five-day "goodwill visit" to the West Indies. Among the 28 U.S. newsmen accredited for the trip were two Negroes, P. Bernard Young Jr., of the Norfolk, Va. Journal Guide, and Llewellyn A. Coles of Columbus, Ohio, representing the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association. Young and Coles would be the first Negro reporters to accompany a President outside...
Last week, a grand jury listened to Joe's story and invited Rags Nelson to tell his. Rags was indignant, then thought better of it. He told newsmen that he had attended the wake with Joe, had a drink with him at the La Salle, but denied all knowledge...
...years of his U.S. heyday, Fritz Kuhn's plodding passion for Adolf Hitler was alloyed by a peripatetic passion for women. Four days after his Dachau escape, a 32-year-old waitress popped up with an old refrain. "Fritz is a very affectionate man," blonde Hedwig Munz told newsmen, "and we will be married as soon as all this trouble is straightened out." And Mrs. Kuhn? She was still the same patient Hausfrau who had stood by Kuhn through all his adventures. Said she: "How can she expect to marry my husband when he still is married...
...ailing Tacoma (Wash.) Times, many a boss had come & gone. So when their newest boss called a staff meeting, newsmen merely yawned. But Editor Willam A. Townes, stoop-shouldered and deceptively mild looking, jerked them awake. He had heard ugly stories about newsroom graft. From now on, anybody who took money on the side would be fired on the spot. Within 48 hours, Townes wanted typed confessions of what had gone...
...Tacoma Times just before the Star winked out in a forced sale last year (TIME, Aug. 25). The Scripps brothers, down to the last four links of a western chain that once had eleven papers, invited him (at around $12,000 a year) to beef up the Times. Newsmen wondered if the Scripps brothers could digest Townes's robust journalism. If they could, the guess is that Townes will get the bigger job of running the chain...