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Reporting a newsroom leak...
...Walter," she recalls, "I saw my first dead body with you." Replies Walter: "Good times can't last forever, kid." The sassy and seasoned Pleshette could do credit to any town and role, but of all the show's fixtures only she seems credible. The hyperthyroid Examiner newsroom has untimely been ripped from The Front Page, the news is more suited to Poughkeepsie than Manhattan, and the other reporters are too blatant even for journalists...
...from New York City aboard the same plane; Rather rode coach, while his fellow millionaires went first-class. The three networks sent about 400 people to Des Moines and spent perhaps $3 million on ad hoc studios. CBS took over and closed off the modernist Civic Center for its newsroom (and already has it booked for 1988). NBC set up shop in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Savery in downtown Des Moines, renting two full floors for offices. ABC crammed itself into a Holiday Inn banquet room. As usual, the networks raced ahead of the results: ABC, the last...
...toward reporters from outside. The Press-Scimitar would shove a camera in the face of a dying leukemia victim, yet when it came time for itself to perish, Editor Milton R. Britten wrote in a memo, "I don't want anybody with pompadours and gleaming teeth in our newsroom with Minicams on the last day. Nor do I want any local or nonlocal journalists on our floor." He went on to say that he did not "want to submit any of our troops to the indignity of having them crawling around the newsroom." In the end, staffers shouted profanities...
...there was a fine page of anecdotes about all the eccentrics who had passed through the newsroom since the days when Ben Hecht and Charlie MacArthur were working on that wonderful play. Editorial-Page Editor Charles Roper, who compiled the memoir, recalled that someone went berserk in the composing room one day and the police had to be summoned. The cops got off on the wrong floor, confronted the nearest writer, Bob Johnson, and said, "We understand you have a crazy man up here." Johnson waved an arm about the room and said, "Take your pick...