Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians said that they would have let Stanco in, but he insisted on bringing a horde of reporters and photographers with him. Said Stanco: "I like the press...
Henry Louis Mencken, the veteran volcano from Baltimore, had a wonderful time at the Wallace convention (see PRESS), and nearly became the subject of a resolution. Maryland Wallaceites wanted the convention to censure him for his reporting in the Baltimore Sun ("Whereas he has resorted to un-American slander against the people of this convention . . ."). But the chair refused the motion on the ground that it would start a flood of others. Other Menckenisms filed to the Sun (on Henry Wallace): "If ... he suddenly sprouts wings and begins flapping about the hall, no one will be surprised"; (on Vice Presidential...
...medical service. A methodical administrator who gets angry if an assistant is half a minute late for an appointment, he will stay in Geneva to get WHO's machinery moving. Said he as the assembly closed: "Our delegates are too damned cooperative - at least for the press. But some day the press will admit the dramatic news values of this international cooperation...
...painful hour last week, Candidate Henry Wallace met the press-and seemed to do his best to discredit himself completely with it. Publicists for his "Progressive Party" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had hopefully billed the session in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel as a press conference, but it quickly degenerated into a battle between a pale, harried Wallace and red-faced, angry newsmen...
Wallace started by getting the wrong foot in his mouth. He read a letter by George Polk, the CBS correspondent whose murder in Greece (TIME, May 24, July 5) is still unsolved. Next he attacked Newsweek (Folk's former employer), CBS and the press in general for not doing enough to clear up the crime. Perhaps he was trying to ingratiate himself with the newsmen by showing concern for their rights; more probably he was chiding them. In any case, he made the correspondents angry. Wrote Britain's discerning Rebecca West: ". . . Never have I seen ... such a miracle...