Word: newsreelers
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...Take the Risk. A full representation of the 82nd Congress had jammed into the auditorium of the Library of Congress. Leaders of both parties sat on the platform: Speaker Sam Rayburn, frowning at the newsreel lights; the Republicans' Kenneth Wherry, scowling over his thoughts; beetle-browed Joe Martin, wearing the rubbers he had cautiously donned to wade through Washington's slush. What did they expect? Some of them had come hoping for a kind of miracle, an authoritative sweeping-away of all confusions and doubts. What they heard was an unadorned, informal discourse delivered from one page...
Then the two men returned to Conference Room No. 2. With its huge glass windows, against which television and newsreel cameras pressed their curious eyes, Room 2 looked remarkably like a big aquarium. As Charles Malik started to speak, the other delegates stopped chattering: he is one of U.N.'s most respected delegates. He spoke without prepared text, his big hands cutting...
...battle, Breakthrough romanticizes the hell out of war. On the level of a shoot-'em-up action film with some coincidental resemblance to the events it pretends to depict, it is a well-staged, workmanlike job. As any kind of memorial to the men who died in its newsreel clips, it is a great deal less...
...careful culling of yellowed Harper's files and a series of essays on the U.S. scene through the century by Bernard DeVoto, Gerald Johnson and Eleanor Roosevelt, Editor Allen achieved a nostalgic, perceptive review of the last 100 years that was sometimes as sharp and exciting as a newsreel. He was so well pleased with it that he ran off 75,000 copies more than Harper's normal press run of 190,000; the U.S. State Department bought 10,000 for distribution abroad...
Three other newsmen were wounded in Korea. Most seriously hurt was NBC's 24-year-old cameraman, Gene Jones, who with his twin brother Charles was taking newsreel pictures of the Inchon invasion. Soon after he hit the beach, Jones was badly wounded by shell fragments. On the Han River with Marines driving toward Seoul, 23-year-old William Blair Jr. of the Baltimore Sun was shot in the back by a sniper. The New York Times's Harold Faber was shot in the thigh while covering an Eighth Army assault across the Naktong River...