Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference next day, President Eisenhower confessed that the affair was "puzzling." The treaty by which the canal was first built has twice been modified, he pointed out, each revision granting "a greater degree or level of rights to the Panamanians." What caused this puzzling tension between the U.S. and Panama, and the violence that grew...
Since 1943, the New York Couture Group Inc., a promotion outfit for 36 top U.S. women's wear manufacturers, has operated under a system of releasing the news of women's fashions to the entire press at the same time-a procedure that protects out-of-town newspapers against premature release of fashion stories by papers in New York, where the big fashion shows are held. Every summer the group conducts a "press week," with showings of the next fall and winter fashions; again, in the winter, the styles for the following spring and summer are trotted...
...Herald Tribune's Women's Feature Editor Eugenia Sheppard sparked a short-lived rebellion by breaking a fashion story before press week. An emergency luncheon meeting of fashion editors and Couture Group representatives was held at "21," and the revolt ended after what Columnist Sheppard still recalls as "the time I was served up on toast...
This year the Times decided it had had enough: it ran a story about this fall's fashions long before the press-week release date. Pink with rage, the Couture Group sent "pledge cards" to editors, asking them to observe the release rules. When the Times refused to sign, it was barred from the group's style shows. Unperturbed, Elizabeth Howkins tapped private sources, last week ran a story about next spring's styles (heavy on geometric designs, skirts like "deflated melons"). "It's ridiculous," said Editor Howkins, "to observe such release rules." To that, newsmen...
...leading newspaper columnists had been paid $1,000 each by his store for making "good will" visits. The newsmen: Hearst Headline Service's Columnist Bob Considine, New York Journal-American's TV Critic Jack O'Brian, the San Francisco Chronicle's Stanton Delaplane, and Associated Press Columnist Hal Boyle...