Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Sept. 6 press story on Nation's Heritage . . . states that "Forbes is counting heavily on its snob appeal." Absolutely untrue. Heritage will be one of publishing flossier flops if it cannot achieve its vitally important purpose-"to convey in a dramatic, graphic way a greater knowledge of all the things that have made and make our nation; to give a picture of the heritage that belongs to all Americans in a manner that will have an appeal to most Americans-through the medium of pictures, art and color...
...pale, ineffectual Friedensburg pattered back & forth between Allied offices and his own; he wore the disapproving and distressed look of a butler at a tea party when one of the guests has dropped an éclair on his mistress' finest carpet. In the middle of a lame press conference which he had summoned, word came that the Soviet-sector police had arrived in force, were swarming all over the building. For a while the reason was not clear; then it was learned that 46 West-sector police in plainclothes, summoned by Friedensburg, were trapped in the building, unarmed. They...
Thus, Ana, reliable and ruthless, has come to the fore; there is a new cutting edge on the old party battle-ax. She is quoted much more often and more reverently in the satellite press than other non-Russian Communists. At the Danube conference, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky made a point of turning to her for advice while ignoring the other Red delegates. He takes pains to give her pointers on conference technique. Obviously she is being groomed for a bigger international role...
Beside Mackenzie King in the high-ceilinged old office in the East Block sat Lester Bowles Pearson, Canada's ace diplomat. For once he seemed ill at ease, like a modest football hero. Mackenzie King was ready to tell the press the week's top secret: from Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister-to-be, "Mike" Pearson was taking over the job of Secretary of State for External Affairs...
David O. Selznick, who shares Mitchum's contract with RKO, called on the American people for "fair play": ".. . We urgently request the press, the industry and the public to withhold . . . judgment until [the] facts are known...