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...carrier Leyte took Chilean navy and air force personnel and local newspapermen to sea on a one-day maneuver. "Just like a Hollywood movie," exclaimed an openmouthed Chilean admiral, as bright-sweatered flight crews directed speedy takeoffs...
Working girls at Prestwick, Scotland, thronged around his plane as if he were a combination of Tyrone Power and Laurence Olivier. Queen Mary, a woman with no nonsense about her, was openly captivated. Cried a London barmaid: "Nobody can say anything but the best about Ike." Taxi drivers, fishmongers, newspapermen echoed her words. In Luxembourg, street crowds chanted "Ike! Ike! Ike!" in the most undignified and friendly manner possible. U.S. occupation troops in Austria. Italy and Germany seemed to forget that they were fed up with garrison duty...
...Institute. Thirty-eight publishers had thought enough of his idea to chip in $170,000 to finance a two-year trial run. Aim: through marathon bull sessions, to add a cubit to the stature of the U.S. press. Plan: for two to four weeks each, groups of 25 working newspapermen (average age of the first 25 students, 44; average newspaper experience, 22 years) would face a tougher grind than any undergraduate class. They would live, study and argue together, from eight to twelve hours...
...President in July. Someone in Wallace's Commerce Department-doubtless thinking that this was an opportune time to embarrass the President-had given a copy to Columnist Drew Pearson, who intended to publish it. PM's I. F. ("Izzy") Stone somehow got a copy too. Other newspapermen demanded to see it. When the press roar became unbearable, bewildered Presidential Secretary Charlie Ross told Commerce to release the letter, and Commerce did. When Harry Truman heard that the letter would be released he was, according to a friend, in "a state of near-hysteria...
...When a newspaper publisher's wife bequeathed nearly $1,000,000 to Harvard, specifying only that it be used "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism," Conant sounded out newspapermen in half a dozen cities. They agreed with him that $1,000,000 was not enough for a first-rate journalism school, and that, anyway, a journalism school might not be the thing newspapermen needed most. It was Conant's idea that the money should be used to give about a dozen newsmen a year a chance to study at Harvard as "Nieman Fellows," take whatever courses...