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...Quizmaster Groucho (You Bet Your Life) Marx, collar up, slouch hat down, landed at London Airport, beat off autograph hounds, then was besieged by newsmen. Asked one: "Why haven't you visited London for 23 years?" Growled Groucho: "To avoid newspapermen. You can call me the male Greta Garbo." With that, he loped off into the rain...
...Editor Iribarren reported on a recent trip he made to France to attend the International Convention of the Catholic Press. Members of the Spanish delegation, he wrote, were the only newsmen on hand, of 30 nations represented, who came from a country with no press freedom. Wrote Editor Iribarren: "Newspapermen from other countries have a spirit of initiative and personal decision, compared to [our country], where the press is directed. [We can] write only what is ordered ... In Spain public opinion is disregarded, and anybody who wants to read the news has to look anywhere except in newspapers." Spain...
...Unitá," he announced, "shows how far Italian Communism can go to act against the honor of its own government. This attack, which exceeds the limits allowed in political debate and which contains insults of unrepeatable vulgarity, has induced the Prime Minister to order that Communist newspapermen be no longer admitted to the offices of the Prime Minister or any other government ministry...
...good company, there is no mystery in good public relations. The secret is simply to tell all it can about itself. One of the first to realize this was American Telephone & Telegraph, which staffs its public-relations department with ex-newspapermen and experienced company hands. Five of A.T. & T.'s subsidiary Bell presidents once headed its public-relations program. A.T. & T. capitalizes on its own greatest asset. Instead of answering stockholders' complaints or other communications by letter, it calls them...
Laniel read some correspondence between himself and Juin. In one letter, Juin had written: "I will not be called on the carpet like a simple bugler . . ." Another: "I don't want to come to the Hotel Matignon and run into a crowd of newspapermen . . . waiting with curiosity for a man who is about to be thrashed with saddle straps." Said Laniel to the Assembly, with a sigh: "I told him he could use a side entrance, but his mind was made up." The National Assembly laughed-in sympathy with Premier Laniel and with civilian government. It supported the sacking...