Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil's press calls him, every new day is a welcome event, a chance to measure new success. At 5:45 one morning, on a typical day, Kubitschek rolled over in bed, buzzed for the papers. Fifteen minutes later he was ambling from telephone to telephone (four beside the bed, four in the bathroom, three in an adjoining study); in one hour he called three Cabinet ministers, one admiral, two generals, two secretaries, the chief of Cabinet, the food supply coordinator, and the administrator of the nearly finished new capital of Brasilia...
...world's ways, Sister Margaret this summer was named head of Washington, D.C.'s Trinity College (enrollment: 646), her own alma mater ('45). Last week, in her new role as one of the nation's youngest college presidents, Sister Margaret, 36, called a press conference and let fly with some cogent thoughts on the education of U.S. women...
Last week, totting up early-bird applications to cover President Eisenhower's planned visit to Russia next spring, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty warned the U.S. press that it stood in danger of defeating its own purpose. Some 500 newsmen, he said, including 16 from the Associated Press, 16 from the major television networks, and 150 from foreign reporters based in the U.S., have already bid for space aboard the press plane -which can accommodate 107. Also among the applicants were several correspondents' and publishers' wives, billed as "feature writers...
...what newsmen go with the President to Russia, and I don't want that right. That must be decided by the news media. But unless we straighten out this problem, we'll have nothing but chaos. And chaos can lead only to the weakening of our free press and our prestige...
...morning last week the Associated Press got a request by longdistance telephone from the Minneapolis Star: could A.P. take color pictures of General George C. Marshall's funeral, airship the developed film from Washington to Minneapolis that same night? The A.P. could and did. Next morning at 10:20, right on schedule, five big Star presses rolled. On Page One: a five-column, four-color picture showing the flag-draped casket and its uniformed pallbearers, the pearl-grey columns of Washington Cathedral, the green trees and the blue...