Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NEWSPAPERMEN generally keep a sharp eye on TIME'S Press section, which always keeps a sharp eye on them. Last week Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Political Reporter Frank M. Matthews prefaced a story with an excerpt from TIME'S Oct. 8 Press report, "The Campaign Trail": "The Nixon and Stevenson campaign tours are models of efficiency. The pampered newsmen with Stevenson need not even bother to register at their hotel stopovers." Then Pittsburgh Reporter Matthews whooped: "Well, Mr. Luce and TIME Magazine, we've got news...
...voice, his personality, according to New York Times reporters roving the Middle West, generally have little appeal. ("Eisenhower is ordinary-like," said a gasoline-station attendant in Oceana County, Mich., "and so is Kefauver.") Expounding on "The Case for the Democrats" in last week's Saturday Evening Post, House Speaker Sam Rayburn managed to write 4,500 words of a 4,700-word article before mentioning the candidate's name. Stevenson's campaign managers are well aware of their problem, are carefully following the "reverse coattails" strategy (TIME, Sept. 10) of linking Stevenson with local candidates...
...panicky message from Georgia to George: the 78-year-old Senator's supporters had canvassed the state, found Herman had ample campaign money and was pulling far ahead. Listening to his friends' pleas, Walter George made a painful decision. He withdrew before the primary, accepted a post as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Herman stomped over Old Foe Melvin Thompson with a 376,000 majority and a grand slam of the county unit votes...
...potentially the most promising development in affairs of the Western alliance since the post-Stalin thaw set i -one that depended on the nature and the mood of the steps to follow. Bothered by the linking together of recent animosities and future needs, the London Economist warned of "the danger . . . of a plunge into a new European experiment, motivated by anti-Americanism and by hostility to Asian-African nationalism. On the other hand, the Economist went on there is now "a fresh chance, which should be seized, to erect on this side of the Atlantic the sturdy pillar which...
...career as newsman, free-lance magazine writer and Government planner. In World War II he served as right-hand man to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who credited him with "doing all the work" on the survey that formed national policy on rubber production. In 1948 the Saturday Evening Post assigned him to do a post-mortem on the election upset. The result led him to a Guggenheim fellowship that financed a two-year study of election phenomena, produced the first of his two notable books on politics, The Future of American Politics and Revolt of the Moderates (TIME, April...