Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peepers. Goldfine's pressagents got the week off to the wildest of Marx Brothers starts. In charge was one Jack Lotto, modestly describing himself as "a former ace reporter for the I.N.S.," who set up shop in a three-room Sheraton-Carlton press headquarters. The headquarters featured free whisky and "Press Receptionist" Bea Duprey, a toothsome Boston model who seemed mostly interested in making sure reporters got her measurements right (35-22-35). In a ridiculous midnight affair, Lotto & Co. soon caught a couple of snoopers listening in with a microphone and a tape recorder from the room next...
...same time, he added, the United States must press upon its students the spiritual aspects of the liberal democratic ideology...
...were in underwear, and all were obviously startled to find they had visitors. Before any loaded question could be asked or rash answer given, Topping quickly dug his Defense Department credentials card from his hip pocket, flashed it before the eyes of his suspicious compatriots and said: "Topping, Associated Press. May I see your senior officer?" Out of the group stepped Major George Kemper. Topping, a World War II infantry captain, promptly warned the major that the other newsmen were Communists and added: "I suggest you and your group get together and decide whether you want to hold a press...
...roll call on the Alaska statehood bill began on the floor of the U.S. Senate last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a shy, round-faced man in the press gallery hurriedly placed a long-distance call. His party was 3,300 miles away: the daily News-Miner in Fairbanks, Alaska. In his flat monotone, Publisher Charles Willis ("Bill") Snedden pridefully described his tory in the making to Managing Editor George Sundborg...
...sent for his wife and son, and settled down in Fairbanks. The troubles he encountered in trying to run a business in a territory convinced him that statehood was the only answer for Alaska. With a booster's confidence in the future, Snedden bought an expensive, highly modern press capable of handling a press run of 200,000 (his present circulation is only 9,495), now turns out some of the handsomest newspaper color work in the nation. Publisher Snedden will not say how much money he has spent on his crusade ("Too damn much-just ask my creditors...