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...similar organizations, embracing the central part of the country, are already in operation in Kentucky and Tennessee, Lyons said. "The main function of our three regional organizations will be to promote first-rate discussions on topics valuable to newspapermen. This extends the seminar idea we practice at Harvard," he stated...
Boss Frank Gannett fumed that the state needed a law "putting newspapermen on a legal par with the clergy in protecting those who confide." In going after Clarke and Leonard, said Gannett, District Attorney Stanley B. Johnson "has established a reputation for swift and ruthless action. It is to be hoped he shows a like alacrity in disposing of gamblers and gambling institutions." At week's end, Johnson showed no such alacrity. The only other arrests were two gamblers, their pockets stuffed with policy tickets. They were fined and turned loose...
Nearly all TIME'S correspondents and most of its writers and editors are former newspapermen. They are the same men (plus or minus a few pounds) who used to do their 2,000 words a day (or maybe an hour) and not be ashamed of the result. The newsmagazine idea sets up tougher professional standards, and the extra hours afford a chance to meet those standards...
TIME'S editorial offices occupy the 28th and 29th floors of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center. They are plainly furnished and littered with paper. The prevailing atmosphere is tension, tempered by absent-minded civility. Until a lot of newspapermen got on TIME'S staff, the office boys used to whistle at their work; now they obey the 50-year-old newspaper taboo against whistling. On some evenings, still, an old Timer will call Matthews on the office phone and say: "Don't miss the sunset...
That was all González needed. With his family, aides and two newspapermen, he sailed for Punta Arenas, 1,400 miles south of Santiago. Once at sea, the reporters were permitted to radio that "the President was steaming south to take personal possession of the Chilean antarctic." González sailed right past Punta Arenas. At Fortescue, near Chile's southern tip, his party boarded the Chilean navy transport President Pinto...