Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successive Saturdays of dual races with MIT open a four-week season. The Engineers should not press the Crimson too hard, since practice hours at the Institute cannot start until labs are out at 5 p.m. The outings against MIT, however, are the Crimson's only races on the Charles this year, and they will certainly be the easiest...
...modern Model A is out of the question--people just wouldn't buy it," Henry Ford II told a press conference at the Business School yesterday afternoon on the day that the American automobile industry produced its millionth car of the year...
...unjustified attacks on the Conference--picketing by veterans' groups, State Department refusal of visas to many delegates, and generally hostile press coverage--will necessarily obscure any valid reasons that Schlesinger may have had for opposing the meetings, and will certainly lump him with these other forces in the public mind. It is his mistake to have made his objections under the aegis of such a false front as the Americans for Intellectual Freedom. This group, hastily and temporarily organized, scheduled its "counter-rally" on the same evening as the climax of the Conference--an obvious and ineffective way of hitting...
...Charles G. Ross, the President's long-faced press secretary, did not smile. He did not know that the photographers had arranged the flight with one of the President's naval aides. Ross confiscated the photographers' plates and 400 feet of movie film, because nobody had his permission for the trip...
Grunts & Groans. The Associated Press's Byron Rollins suggested that Ross let the photographers develop their pictures and submit them for approval. Said Ross, grimly: "These pictures will not be published." Cried International News Photos' Al Muto: "All we ever get from you is a lot of grunts and groans." Grabbing back his plates, he deliberately exposed them. Rollins and Acme's Milton Freier did the same. The movie men, who did not want to waste footage taken before the flight, let Charlie Ross ship their films to Washington to be developed by the Navy...