Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trained to handle her. Then newsmen were suddenly invited to explore the Lapu Lapu "from end to end." Explained a Filipino official to reporters: "The Lapu Lapu is not a presidential yacht. It is a navy ship." An aide tried to warn him: "If you do not give the press the entire truth, they will ferret it out." "But," replied the first official, "if I give the wrong facts who will be blamed?" At that point a reporter interrupted them: "If this is a navy ship, why are the chairs marked 'President's chairs?' " Said the second...
...successors down to Conservative President Ponce Enriquez have brought hope for the future and, above all, freedom. Almost daily one paper or another roasts Ponce for "fraud, deceit and treason." The President ignores them all. "Neither calumny nor insult disturbs me," he says. "I have given the press free rein...
...hostility toward Christ," Barth said, "it does not exist in the Communist East alone." The "evil spirit" manifests itself in the East as "open totalitarianism, backed by an all-powerful political party." whereas in the West it takes the form of "creeping totalitarianism, backed by powerful institutions, such as press, private enterprise, public opinion and arrogant wealth." Moreover, the Communist regime of East Germany may be regarded as "a tool of God which fulfills a definite function according to the Lord's plans: the function of a punishing...
Modern pressagents are effete, Variety complained not long ago, but last week the boys seemed determined to disprove the horrendous charge. During the shooting of Bing Crosby's Say One for Me, platoons of short-skirted, black-stockinged extras served champagne to the press. Linda Darnell got herself Page One hypnotized to learn a part. And Brigitte Bardot announced she is going to Moscow for the premiere of her forthcoming movie (in which she is fully clothed from first reel to last). Finally, the Motion Picture Division of U.C.L.A. invited Elizabeth Taylor to be a guest lecturer. Her subject...
...campus. Inside, 20 undergraduate journalists had mustered for his course on editorial writing. Thus last week, after 43 years of newspapering, began a new career for Carl E. Lindstrom, 62, retired executive editor of the Hartford. Conn. Times (circ. 120,161), and a discerning lifelong critic of the U.S. press...