Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drive. Perle Mesta began her final assault on Washington in 1941. She moved into the exclusive Sulgrave Club, got some professional advice on press relations, and started giving parties. She shrewdly gave a yearly alcoholic "tea" for the women's press corps. Either with rare good luck or uncanny generalship, she ingratiated herself early with Harry Truman. She feted him as a Senator, gave the first party in his honor-a $5,000 blowout-when he became Vice President. She gave a huge "coming-out" party for Margaret Truman in 1946. When Margaret sang in Oklahoma City, Perle brought...
...hand, what it really meant was a genuine peace move. The North Atlantic pact was a factor. The airlift was a factor. Even the Anna Louise Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn't know any more than the infidel press, so it weaseled. It put its banner headline on a House of Commons debate about a bill to provide analgesia for childbirth: COMMONS BACKS PAIN RELIEF FOR MOTHERS. Then, into column 5, halfway down, it dropped a three-inch story with the noncommittal head: MOLOTOV REPLACED BY VISHINSKY...
...acquisition of the apparatus heralds two major changes in CRIMSON policy. First, the 45-minute camera-to-press interval permits inclusion of photographs of unscheduled nocturnal events, where previously the consumption of time involved in sending a picture to be engraved in Boston by the tedious zinc-and-acid progress ruled out late shots...
Yale's high-scoring forward, Tony Lavelli, was named to the Associated Press All-America collegiate basketball team yesterday. Selected by a vote of 404 sportwriters, the team also includes Ed Macauley, of St. Louis, Alex Groza and Ralph Beard, of Kontucky, and Vince Boryla, of Denver...
...Associated Press yesterday elected the top ten basketball teams for this season. They are: Kentucky, Oklahoma A. and M., St. Louis, Illinois, Western Kentucky, Minnesota, Bardley, San Francisco, Tulane, and Bowling Green...