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...movie about the College has been in the embryo stage since 1948. At that time John U. Munro, assistant to the Provost, William M. Pinkerton, director of the News Office, and David W. Bailey, secretary to the Corporation, wrote a very rough script which is now serving as a basis for the "March of Time" production. "More than likely, there'll be a completely new script by the time the movie in finished," Munro said last night...
Last Rush. To salve his conscience as he grew older and the calendar ran m reverse, he joined the pickets in the bloody Homestead steel strike of 1892, and actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton. After that, Mark devoted the rest of his life to visiting Walt Whitman, dressing French wounds in the Franco-Prussian War and preaching Wilsonian democracy on park benches to young men who weren't even ready for Grover Cleveland...
Many a businessman blames newsmen for the bad press business often gets. Many a reporter puts the blame on businessmen. Who is right? Last week, William M. Pinkerton, an ex-newsman (Omaha World Record, Kansas City Star, etc.), now director of the Harvard News Office, put most of the blame on businessmen. Writing in the May issue of the Harvard Business Review, he argued that reporters can be trusted to get things right as long as businessmen tell them the facts...
...help business get a better press, Newsman Pinkerton drafted a few rules for businessmen to keep under the glass tops of their desks. The most important...
...Stay "on the record"; don't put a remark "off the record" after it has been spoken. Says Pinkerton: "Properly used, 'off the record' means 'hear this and forget you ever heard it'-generally, a ridiculous remark to make to a news reporter...