Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DETROIT FREE PRESS : The affair leaves a bad taste. If it was a setback for President Eisenhower, it also added very little to the prestige of the Senate...
...Press Officer...
...readers for the thorny issues and the thornier human personalities involved. With weekly journalism's advantages of second thought and third look, TIME this week reports the high drama of the post-midnight confirmation vote-not only the result, but how and why it came about, what the press said, and what the likely consequences are. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "This Sad Episode," and related stories...
That did it. The two-hour trial was over; Andrew God got off scot-free, and not even Bilko's Colonel Hall should have been surprised. "The whole thing may seem ridiculous to someone outside the Army," suggested a press officer superfluously last week, as he tried to explain the strange turns of the Army's crunching, newfangled wheels of justice. How ridiculous, indeed, only God knew...
...Guns. Unfortunately, the Navy then performed with far less skill on the public-relations front. After Tail Gunner Corder was taken to a hospital (his condition: very good), the 13 other crewmen were hustled into a press conference. Why, correspondents wanted to know, had the Mercator not fired back with its other weapons - two .50-cal. guns in the top turret and two 20-mm. guns in the nose? Replied Pilot Mayer: The guns were inoperative. Why? Well - because of a lack of spare parts, which "are very difficult to get." Would the Navy make gun parts available for future...