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...homecoming that, to my mind, was terribly under-reported . . . That was his first public appearance in Abilene . . . dedicating the Eisenhower Memorial Foundation . . . This speech hit me so hard that I tried all afternoon to get a transcript of it ... Some of America's best-known newspapermen didn't even bother to cover the event . . . I think they missed out on a whale of a human document...
...citizens don't run wild in fear of the roof-top-stalking menace with a carbine and a good eye. The socialites act like socialites and demand the police "do something," and the newspapermen behave almost like newspapermen and threaten to turn the mayor out, of office if the killer is not caught. Except for a couple of lucky breaks, necessary to catch the sniper in an hour and a half, the police go through the dull routine of looking for tips on an unknown man who shoots almost anyone, anywhere, at any time...
...create an illusion of relaxed tensions. He got the impression over (for those still impressionable) with a minimum of expenditure. He telegraphed U.S. editors that war was not inevitable; he blandly charmed an Indian ambassador into believing that a little talk would settle anything. At Panmunjom, the Communist "newspapermen" confided in U.S. correspondents that a Korean truce was just around the corner-launching a flood of optimistic news stories...
Asked the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill: "Why did he have to do it Saturday night?" For newspapermen, President Truman could hardly have picked a worse time to announce he would not run again (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Many dailies had only the usual weekend skeleton crews on hand to handle one of the biggest political stories of the year, and their presses had already rolled off a big chunk of their fat Sunday editions when the big news came through. Most had been decoyed into a false security by an advance text of Truman's speech sent...
Crimson ruggers few home from last week's Bermuda rugby carnival yesterday after playing what island newspapermen called "both the worst and the best" of any of the five entrants. They lost two games, won one game, and tied-the fourth...