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...series by the duke's ex-valet. It was aggravated this year when the Pictorial had to be stopped by court order (obtained by the royal family) from completing an intimate series by the ex-superintendent of the Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. Many Fleet Street newspapermen, without blaming the royal family for irritation at peephole journalists, nonetheless blame Buckingham Palace for doing nothing to encourage legitimate coverage. Any royal tour is bound to have press coverage, and since the primary object is to get good public relations for Britain, newsmen argue it should be covered widely...
...Newspapermen like to complain that in reporting the news, radio and television newsmen simply buy early editions of every paper in town and read the stories on the air. But there is a pencil behind the other ear. Television shows are creating more and more newspaper headlines...
...There aren't many idealists left." But back in Havana, thoughts of "Reporter" Flynn, author of two barely remembered novels, seemed less idealistic. Morals-minded Castro followers joked at the memory of his roistering coverage, and one dark-eyed rebelista murmured: "We are more than happy to meet newspapermen we respect, but as to Mr. Flynn, we had the feeling he was not a real journalist...
...longshore boss, flew into Reno from San Francisco last week with his companion and registered at the Mapes Hotel as "Mr. & Mrs. Harry Bridges"-prematurely, as it turned out. For one thing, it was too late in the day for even a quick Nevada wedding. For another, as besieging newspapermen pointed out when Bridges jauntily introduced them to his bride-to-be next morning, the archaic, unchallenged Nevada law forbade it. The future and third Mrs. Bridges, 35-year-old Noriko Sawada, a dainty, dignified San Francisco law secretary, is a Nisei...
...about 127 men with black faces were working in Mine No. 4 of the Dominion Steel and Coal Company when they heard and felt an explosion. The result did not become clear until two days later when all precincts were heard from and 39 men were counted dead. The newspapermen on hand for the occasion were figuring on an even higher total, but the miners, who are a courageous lot, fooled everybody. Promptly adjusting to the situation in which they found themselves, many of the men lay on their bellies and sucked air through tiny holes in a pipe. Some...