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...like to have a little talk with you about that coined word "newshens" . . . It brings to mind a picture of a lot of scratching, much of it useless, accompanied by considerable clucking. (Maybe women do talk a lot, but I know newspapermen who do most of the talking in an interview, too.) In a small survey conducted by myself (and therefore not authoritative), I found no newspaperwomen who liked being called newshens...
Five-Time Winner. Dissatisfaction with "merely printing the news" has brought the P-D and its staffers eleven Pulitzer Prizes. Even though the prizes were started in 1917 under the will of the P-D's founder, few newspapermen ever complain that favoritism is involved, since the paper's determined crusading makes it a more logical candidate for the prizes than other papers (Publisher Pulitzer stays out of the discussion when the P-D is a candidate). P-D men have won prizes for everything from forcing a corrupt federal judge to resign and the exposure...
...walked off the speakers' platform, sauntered to the side of the hall, and stood chatting with some of his lieutenants about a Spanish course he once took at a school in Pittsburgh. As cheers went up for Reuther, McDonald turned his back to the platform. "I want the newspapermen, and everyone else, to see my total indifference to this election," he explained...
...brand-new. A few days before Truman spoke, some newspapermen (notably the New York Times's Arthur Krock) began writing stories reflecting Truman's defense that White was left in his job so that the FBI could watch...
...abated, O'Donnell nevertheless wrote that "Ike's relations with the press . . . are not as effective as those of Roosevelt or ... Harry Truman [and] the relations of Ike's Cabinet members with the [press] are bad-very bad." Added Fair Dealing Columnist Marquis Childs: "Many working newspapermen [complain] that the flow of news has been greatly reduced in recent months . . . Whether [the new order] will achieve the desired end is open to question . . . The negative step of removing restrictions [on classified information] is not enough. There must be a positive incentive for giving out information...