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...newspapermen are notoriously an improvident breed, one shining exception is 35-year-old Talcott Williams Powell, son of an Episcopal rector, godson and namesake of the first director of the Pulitzer (Columbia) School of Journalism. Talcott Powell, anxious to make his mark in the world, has kept a performance chart on himself ever since he was a cub reporter on the New York Sun. Graphing his status from year to year, he projected his curve upward to assistant on the city desk of the New York Herald Tribune, upward to the general managership of the Middletown (N. Y.) Times Herald...
...Bennett anguished and Premier Aberhart communed at Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower, an extremely tall, imposing British cleric in black gaiters and frock coat landed in Manhattan on his way to Alberta. As newshawks swarmed around him the very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, observed: "Newspapermen? Ah yes. Terrible people! You aren't usually so eager for a sermon. Well, this is my chance...
...policy of treating newspapermen as gentlemen seemed worthy of a trial. We followed this line of action with whatever restrictions we could exact. I may state parenthetically that, with only an occasional exception, the reporters conducted themselves as ladies and gentlemen...
...Washington, which he disliked, to succeed the late Richard V. Oulahan as Times chief of staff. Remaining severely on the sidelines, immune to official blandishments, Arthur Krock viewed the Capital scene with careful detachment, reported it accurately, interpreted it colorfully. He still considers Washington as "Death Valley for newspapermen...
...never give interviews to newspapermen," was the only statement Washington reporters could get from President James Bryant Conant of Harvard when he addressed the Harvard Clubs of Washington in the nation's capital last week. The Harvard president, being pressed by the News hawks, then added, "I don't even give interviews to former Harvard students--there's lots of them, you know...