Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's scouting and planning by hard-thinking quarter J. "Anyface" Carodny '48, shown above as he plunged into thought for the vital tally in Saturday's payoff grid encounter, a highly lubricated Plympton Street aggregation outrushed, outpassed, and out-talked a pawky and uncoordinated crew of Yale Daily Newsmen by a 23 to 2 count...
...long, upholstered office in City Hall sat the man who had his finger on this pulsebeat. Daily, at all hours, across the claret-colored rug streamed aides, colleagues, politicians, businessmen, repairmen, newsmen. The young man, who saw everyone, was the city's mayor: deLesseps ("Chep") Story Morrison, 35, handsome, bouncing, talkative, tough and stubborn...
...caddy Demaret tips his caddies as much as $150 for a tournament (the usual pro's tip: $5 a round). In match play, Demaret usually does badly. After Ben Hogan drubbed him 10 and 9 last year in the P.G.A. Championship semifinals, newsmen asked what was the turning point of the match. Replied Jimmy dryly: "When Hogan showed up." But Jimmy has won the prized Masters' Tournament twice...
...friend General MacArthur, whom McCormick had known well in World War I, gave him the most lavish reception ever accorded an unofficial visitor. General MacArthur lent him his private Cadillac, dined with him twice. McCormick assured U.S. newsmen that they had avoided politics. He brushed off talk of the MacArthur-for-President drive and repeated his endorsement of Senator Taft...
...Most newsmen should know that to call a lawyer a "shyster," an author a "plagiarist," or a doctor a "quack" is usually libelous. But it may surprise them to learn that praising a doctor may be libelous. In Louisiana, a doctor collected damages after the New Orleans Picayune praised an operation he had performed. His claim: the story was, in effect, an ad for him; medical ethics prohibit advertising; his medical standing was therefore damaged...