Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Half a world apart, two new U.S. envoys observed similar diplomatic traditions in their first official meetings with heads of state. In London U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John Hay Whitney, just short of 60 years after his grandfather John Hay took over the post, hied himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real...
Detective Fred Otash testified that Hollywood Research, Inc., a listening post manned by a niece of Confidential Publisher Robert Harrison, the king of leer, paid him more than $30,000 a year for his services. Among Otash's assignments: spying from bushes on Anita Ekberg, and taking telephoto-lens movies of her and her husband-to-be, Anthony Steel; "checking" some 200 Hollywood expose stories in two years for Harrison and others...
...though long chary of offending Baron Beck, had assigned Pulitzer Prizewinning Reporter Ed Guthman to ferret out the story as soon as it learned of the Oregonian expose last year. Last week it red-bannered the Washington hearings and played local angles to the hilt. Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 190,789), on the other hand, ran only routine service stories on the Senate investigation. still had not given the story top Page One play. The P-I diligently killed its syndicated Drew Pearson and Westbrook Pegler columns whenever they criticized Beck...
...cough and hearing trouble; for Lennie, because he has a basic lack of security; and for the Republicans, because they are just beginning to recover from a similar fiasco in Cambridge. Fortunately, there is a way out. Mr. Eisenhower, who intimated that he had not found a federal post suitable for Hall, might consider having the present sheriff of Nassau County promoted, so that Len could get his old job back. That way everybody would be happy, or almost everybody...
Worthy reported on his experiences in China for the Baltimore Afro-American, CBS Radio News, and the New York Post. Previously, he had covered the Bandung Conference and written a series of stories on Africa...