Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cross Section of Discontent. Only two newsmen had stuck to Henry's trail throughout his warm-up campaign. They were Howard Norton of the Baltimore Sun, and James Wechsler of the New York Post. They had been quickly shushed at press conferences whenever they tried to challenge Wallace's ideas or facts. Sometimes Wallace hid from them in hotel rooms...
...where he was to appear. Some 2,000 of Evansville's population joined in. Hoodlums stormed the Coliseum's doors, slugged Wallace Campaign Manager C. B. ("Beany") Baldwin and two other Wallace coworkers. Police dispersed the mob. Cried Henry: "The blame for this violence lies with the press for giving misinformation." Inside the hall an uneasy audience of 500, most of them well dressed, settled back to listen to the champion of peace, appeasement, and the "common man," and to contribute $1,000 to his cause...
...another, bigger reason: "This incident is characteristic of one phase of the present-day nervousness and suspicion in Europe. A network of forgers and falsifiers-some clever and some not-are busily peddling allegedly secret documents to embassies, intelligence officers, ministries and newspaper correspondents. . . . Judging from the Soviet press ... it is likely that documents are being peddled with equal facility on the other side of the Iron Curtain. . . . The market for such 'phonies' is probably better today than ever before in history...
...hotel. She was divorced two years ago; his wife died last August. "It was a whirlwind romance," said the bride-to-be, who described the balding chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee as "a very romantic person." Mrs. Rabenhorst, who dabbles in poetry, let the press have some...
Among the networks, ABC and CBS share top honors with three prizewinning programs apiece. ABC's Elmer Davis and CBS Views the Press divided the award for reporting; ABC's Theatre Guild on the Air and CBS's Studio One split the drama prize; ABC's Boston Symphony wins the music award; CBS's Documentary Unit series gets the education award. Mutual gets only a tiny ray of reflected glory (one of its affiliated stations won a prize). NBC gets nothing...