Word: packman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinction and aloofness." On the hottest day he wore a huge brown cape and a "disastrous hat"; round his shoulders was slung a fishing creel, in which he placed the books he was given to review. The total effect was that of "some weird pedlar or packman...
...good friend Marion Davies.* Less than a week after Hearst died, the Los Angeles Examiner printed its last blast against vivisection, and other papers in the chain also dropped the subject. When a Milwaukee Sentinel staffer asked, "What's our policy now on McCarthy?" Managing Editor J. J. Packman replied: "We have no policy on McCarthy. Play the story for what it's worth...