Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President popped into the almost-deserted press lounge, sneaked up behind a pool player, asked suddenly: "Who's behind the eight-ball?" The player turned around in annoyance, stifled a curse just in time as he recognized the man in the tan fishing cap and sunglasses. "Go ahead with your game," grinned the President. Next week Washington's ex-Governor Mon Wallgren would be arriving, Harry Truman promised, "and I'm going to bring him over and have him show you fellows how to play...
Something New. Harry Truman was not ready for any serious political pronouncements. He dropped in at the press lounge several times, once to invite newsmen to take a swim with him. Someone asked if he would hold a press conference. "Not if I can help it," he declared promptly. When urged, he added: "Well, maybe, if you can think of some questions-and let me ask them." On his last visit, his Jeff Davis beard was gone. Bess Truman and Margaret were arriving that day, he explained...
Hard-running Harold Stassen, who started his race for the 1948 nomination a full year ahead of his rivals, is no man to let the grass grow up under his feet. In a radio interview on Mutual's Meet The Press program last week, the University of Pennsylvania's President Stassen was off to an even longer head start in the 1952 campaign...
...Japanese press published poems written by 13 of the condemned men. Tojo wrote...
...last night boat gave up. Last week, the Manhattan press broke into a wail of nostalgia as the passing of the Day Line was announced. New York's cave dwellers felt a twinge of regret too-until they tried to remember when they had last ridden on a Day Line boat. It had been quite a while...