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...Newspapermen would long debate how much of the blame belonged to the A.P. The red-faced A.P. treasured one technical defense: it had not sent the Connally story out as a flash (as such news deserved, if the A.P. were unreservedly vouching for it) but only as a bulletin. And the bulletin carried a hedge, "announcement is expected momentarily," which did not justify the unqualified headlines...
...plain citizens who could speak foreign languages were suddenly popular. The Yellow Cab company announced that it had 70 drivers capable of conversing in alien tongues, including Assyrian. Correspondents would be offered every help in the way of workrooms, telegraph service, reference material-even a volunteer corps of ex-newspapermen ready and anxious to substitute as rewrite men for correspondents bowled over by the bottle. The city was prepared to offer them plenty of entertainment-cocktail parties, ferry and airplane rides, press cards good for squaring minor infractions...
Last week, U.S. editors had much bigger news to report quickly, but with far better mechanical facilities. The public was hungry for details. Said Ivan Annenberg, circulation manager of Manhattan's Daily News: "In all my years of newspapering, I have never seen papers sold so fast." Newspapermen had long since conceded radio's advantage in speed. They had almost forgotten how it felt to sell "extras." But this time it was different...
Nieman Fellowships are awarded annually, usually 12 in number, to journalists of three years' experience. A Fellowship entitles the holder to a college year of study in a program of his own choosing. Eighty-seven newspapermen have gained the distinction since the Fellowship was established in 1938 by the bequest of Agnes Wahl Nieman...
...Foundation does not intend any radical changes in the normal requirement for the Fellowship that the candidate be a member of the working press who can secure a leave of absence for a term of study. The new rules are solely to make it possible for those newspapermen now in war service and the occasionally self-employed journalist to be considered...