Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authorization bill represented a rock-bottom figure for U.S. security. Next day he went even farther. About a dozen White House newsmen, straggled into the office of Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty for the routine afternoon briefing. "Guess we won't need this," said one, indicating his note paper. Replied Hagerty: "I haven't anything to say to you today-but if you'll follow me, the President would like...
Since the socially impeccable Mrs. Skakel had told the Advocate about the Becks, invited the paper to take pictures, and had helped the Advocate's free-lance photographer set up the shot of the guest she introduced as Dave Jr. (father had supposedly left), the Advocate cut loose with an acid apology on Page One. In an open letter to the Becks, Managing Editor E. R. McCullough explained: "Frankly, we believed the Skakels on Saturday night and Monday morning, and we suppose we've got to go along with their latest story . . . If you have any thoughts...
...More Hop. In conversation and in his autobiography, For the Life of Me, Richardson bitterly decries the mellowing of newspapers and newsmen over the years. "In my day." he muses, "all reporters were single. They lived in a rooming house near the paper, and they drank themselves to sleep every night and went to bed with their socks on." But now he, too, has reluctantly begun to mellow. "I've lost the hop on my fast one," he said last week, "and I've lost the will to fool 'em with junk any more. I guess, really...
Earning his spurs as newly appointed editor of the News, William Baggs, longtime columnist for the paper, turned failure into feature. When the Sunday news section came off the press last week, a Page One box proclaimed: YOU CAN GET CASH BECAUSE WE ERRED. Underneath, the News admitted that the map in that day's magazine section was all wrong, offered the reader who sent in the "largest number of correct corrections" a $50 award. Total number of replies, 1,014, largest number of corrections offered...
Alfried Krupp is confident that the climate will change; he has already seen the extent to which the cold war has softened earlier attitudes against German industrial concentration. In many cases, deconcentration has been allowed to become only a paper fiction; e.g., Friedrich Flick's steel combine "sold" one steel mill to Flick's sons. Though Krupp keeps a close watch on his separated assets (Beitz sometimes calls the companies' managers in for reports), he has made no big move toward secret reconcentration. Alfried Krupp could legally sell his coal and steel holdings in Germany and invest...