Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Breach. The Russians did not have to listen to such words of protest often. Whenever unpleasantness threatened, an American leaped into the breach. When Dwight Macdonald, editor of the anti-Communist magazine Politics, asked Fadeev at a press conference what had happened to several Soviet writers who have disappeared, Daily Worker Columnist Howard Fast jumped up and cried: "I know what has happened to all the people who could not be here with us ... I wait myself to be arrested at any time." Fast seemed overly apprehensive. Even Leipzig-born Communist Gerhart Eisler, facing deportation, was at liberty...
...town dates for April-a speech at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology convocation, a trip to receive an honorary law degree at Boston College, a speech at the U.N.'s cornerstone-laying ceremony, a dinner for Israel's President Chaim Weizmann in Manhattan. Reporters at his press conference suggested that this was Harry Truman's way of seeking a "reconciliation" with Congress. There was nothing to reconcile, the President insisted; it was just a simple change in plans to let him catch up on paper work and see all the Congressmen who would like to drop around...
...spring festivals approached, Mexico City had had a rash of queen elections. Oilworkers, government clerks, sportsmen and the "proletarian districts" all elected their own queens, and crowned them at special fiestas. The press photographers got Cantinflas, Mexico's most popular comedian, to crown their queen (see cut). Moy ran as the army's candidate for queen of all the festivals. Her nearest competitor was sultry, dark-haired Yolanda Ortiz, candidate of the traffic cops (the police department had its own candidate). Almost everyone in Mexico City knew that they were running a close race, but that...
Dick would convene the gentlemen of the press in his Dillon cubicle, settle back in his wooden armchair, fold his hands across his paunch, cross those match sticks be uses for legs, and give them the lowdown, drawling half from the aide of his mouth and half through his nose...
Shapley said the conference "has certainly been misrepresented in many ways, very interestingly." He expressly criticized the press because "it has chosen to ignore" the action of the State Department in denying visas to delegates from Western Europe...