Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, exclaimed the usually businesslike Associated Press, as its clacking teletype machines began to carry the news around the world, "the fairy-tale drama of Britain's exciting weekend closed...
After more than 21 years (7,829 days) as Canada's Prime Minister, 73-year-old William Lyon Mackenzie King was bowing out. At his final press conference last week he looked ill. His lined face had a sickly flush, and the thin lock of grey hair that slipped over his right temple made him seem older than his years. His hands trembled as he toyed with the black ribbon of his pince-nez. His voice was unusually low, and sometimes he seemed to be groping for the right word...
During King's absence and illness in London (TIME, Nov. 1), Louis St. Laurent, the man he had picked to succeed him, had moved into the Prime Minister's office in the East Block. But for the press conference, everything was back in the same order in which methodical Mackenzie King had kept it over the years. A picture of Harry Truman, autographed "To Louis St. Laurent," had been taken off the walnut, table-type desk and was half-hidden on a shelf. Mackenzie King sat again in his stuffed blue swivel chair and rested his feet...
...last press conference was like many that had gone before: there was little news. When the time came for questions and a newsman asked about his "golden moment" in Canadian public life, sober-sided Mackenzie King could not think of an answer. Said he: "I am proudest . . . of keeping this nation united." On questions about the new cabinet and the next election, King was his artful self in saying nothing. "I have been advised to avoid controversial issues," he said...
Once a year, the Managing Editors' Association of the Associated Press-a sort of club within a club-has a soul-searching session. Last week, in Chicago's Drake Hotel, it was in full and mournful cry. With the election fresh in mind, the managing editors of A.P. papers found plenty to search their souls about...