Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mesta motorcade cruised about, unable to find the U.S. legation. At length, greeted by the squealing of several hundred well-voiced pigs at a nearby fair, Minister Mesta settled in her official residence. Even before arranging twelve photographs of her great & good friend Harry Truman, she received the press in her brown & ivory salon. "My President," she said, "thinks you are very, very, terribly important. You may be small, but we have a saying in my country that precious pearls come in small packages...
...working hours in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, of which he is director. In his spare time, spruce, 62-year-old Edgell practices a rare and, he fears, a vanishing skill: hunting the wild bee.* Last week, in a pithy little book, The Bee Hunter (Harvard University Press; $2.50), he let the rest of the U.S. in on his secrets...
...Broadcasters survey said that their chief source of daily news is the radio. The next question is: What kind of news are they getting? To find out, a special committee of the National Association of Radio News Directors took a one week look at the four news associations (Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Transradio Press). Last week, the committee issued a 12,000-word report described by N.A.R.N.D. President Sig Mickelson as a "fact-finding rather than a fault-finding project." If not faults, the committee found plenty coming," of the flaws. report "The most declared, "is glaring...
...individual services, the Associated Press "does a workmanlike job," but should have a "sharper approach...
Sometimes you can read halfway through an A. P. story before realizing you've got something hot." United Press' figures "in accident and disaster stories . . . are in variably higher than A.P. figures, and invariably have to be revised downward." U.P. also showed "a predilection for the tired adjective." International News Service summaries are "well and tightly written." But I.N.S...