Word: newsroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, the dark-suited strangers circulated politely through the newsroom of the Cincinnati Enquirer...
Success did not mellow Runyon. He never stopped trying to impress newsroom recruits with his $40 shoes (size 51B) and his sharpie suits. He avoided the sportswriting clan's easy fraternity, arriving early and alone at the ballpark, leaving alone and late. He was a married bachelor whose first wife died of the habit that he had kicked...
Here and there, the news deluge elevated a few newsroom temperatures to fever degree. "For a while," said Atlanta Constitution Managing Editor Bill Field, "it looked like the whole world was going to hell." And there were, of course, inevitable dislocations. The Denver Post, which had treated Recent Visitor Lyndon Johnson to a Page One portrait in color, decided to do the same for Barry Goldwater, and planned on having an appropriate banner headline. Only Barry's picture survived. The banner went to another sort of politician altogether: RUSS "RETIRE" KHRUSHCHEV...
...Joseph Kress, 44, a proud Navy mother in Dubuque, Iowa, walked into the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald newsroom with a little item for the paper's servicemen's column. She had a letter from her son, James J. Kress, 20, a fireman aboard the U.S. destroyer Richard S. Edwards, and she wanted Jimmy's friends to know where he was. The letter began: "Dear Mom and Dad: In case you haven't heard the names of those destroyers that were attacked in the Tonkin Gulf last Friday night, they were the R. S. Edwards and the Morton...
...approach to editorial leadership of the Times. On smaller dailies, down-in-the-trenches control by the managing editor is both common and feasible. On the Times, it is virtually impossible. Catledge commands a news-gathering army of 850 far-flung hands. Some denizens of the Times's newsroom sit so far from the boss that when Catledge became managing editor his staff whimsically presented him with binoculars. This crew, with help from wire services, generates some million words of copy each day-of which the daily Times, for all its bulkiness, can find room for only...