Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their desire. Thus the beating of town youths may go almost unpunished if the athletes involved are valuable to the university; for it is better to let them off with a stern warning than to put them on probation or expel them and risk the nastiness of sensationalist press coverage...
...There is nothing in the Middle Eastern picture which necessitates the present state of permanent war," Crum said. In fact, he noted, the Arab people themselves almost never sympathize with the "tirades of hatred" which various Arab leaders disseminate through their state-controlled press and radio...
...sorry that anything I have written should have given offense to Gaitskell, for whom I formed a high regard. I was writing as a columnist and not as a political commentator. I did not think for one moment that anyone would take the article literally." But to inquiring press colleagues, he insisted: "I stand by my interview." And on the basis of that insistence, the Herald Tribune made tentative plans to run the offending column in the U.S. this week...
...right from its wartime beginnings in neutral Sweden. Bonnier wanted a paper that would back the Allies (only some 20% of Sweden's editors were pro-German at the time), needed an editor with enough spunk and sparkle to put Expressen apart from the rest of the Swedish press, which was generally cast in the sobersided Scandinavian tradition...
Died. Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky, 87, oldest Bolshevist revolutionary, who shared with Lenin a 17-month prison term that began in 1895, later became a director of the Soviet Union's first Five-Year Plan, was eulogized in 1957 by the Current Digest of the Soviet Press as "one of the founders of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia . . . founder of the scientific school of Soviet power engineering, a dreamer and poet...