Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow kept its promise to the visiting press-and added a few unexpected trimmings. U.S. and British newsmen got preferred rooms in the Hotel Moskva, which normally houses the "classless society's" technical, artistic and political elite. The Soviet elite doubled up with friends around town so that Moscow could put on the dog for correspondents at the Conference of Foreign Ministers...
...female clerk of Georgia's Supreme Court stepped out into the mob of newsmen and politicos milling in a dark hallway of the State Capitol. Trembling with excitement, she squeaked: "No shoving, please." When the mob shoved anyway, a man shouted anxiously: "Don't shove. It's 5-to-2 for Thompson...
Rebel Talk. Brazilian newsmen, who had flown to rebel headquarters, reported that the city swarmed with insurgent troops, "obviously in the last stages of preparation for a march on Asuncion." Before much blood was spilled (only one patrol clash had been reported), Government and rebels might still arrive at some kind of an understanding. Wily Dictator Morinigo was reported to have sent emissaries to the rebels. He also sent a mission to Buenos Aires to ask help from Argentina. If Buenos Aires gave him no hope (and there was no indication that it would), Morinigo would talk seriously with Concepcion...
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Foreign Minister, told newsmen visiting Moscow the assets a good newspaperman must have: "Strong legs-first to catch the man he wants to interview, and secondly to run away from the man after he has printed...
...picric acid gauze, and his eyebrows would be burned off." You could tell Slim Lynch by a shapeless cap, a tired-looking overcoat, a cynical stare. He sharpened his camera eye on such famed stories as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping-and hardened his stomach on raids on rural stills (the newsmen usually split the "take" with the dry squad). He got to know practically every cop, private eye, drunk, lawyer, convict and whore in the Pacific Northwest...