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When news breaks, Reporter Pressman roars to the scene in the station's Ford Thunderbird or Chevrolet station wagon, both of which are equipped with telephone and recording equipment. "These give reporting a new dimension," says Pressman. "Local news broadcasting has suffered too long from slavish dependence on wire services. It has its own tremendous advantage of personalization and immediacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Shoe-Leather Man | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...busy badger: WRCA's Gabriel Pressman, 33, who a fortnight ago plunked his camera equipment and crew down before a public hearing at City Hall in defiance of the city council's ban on TV. Ordered out, Reporter Pressman replied: "You'll have to eject us." Then he tried to force the council's hand by asking it to vote on whether he could remain. Pressman's request was denied; he and his crew were bounced by the sergeant at arms. But the furor brought top New York broadcasting brass together for a showdown with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Shoe-Leather Man | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...first time that able, intense Gabe Pressman has made trouble for the authorities. Touring Europe on a Pulitzer traveling scholarship at 24, Columbia Graduate Pressman tried to crash the trial of Hungarian Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, was told there were no seats left. He produced pictures showing empty seats in the courtroom and was admitted, one of the two U.S. correspondents at the trial (the other: U.P.'s Ed Korry). Back in the U.S., Pressman got a job as a City Hall reporter for the New York World-Telegram, then, 2½ years ago, joined NBC's Manhattan station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Shoe-Leather Man | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...tiny smudge of lipstick, spotted by the eagle eye of an Associated Pressman and duly reported by cable and radio last week, was an all's-well signal that spread to the four corners of the earth. Such, anyway, was the impression created by frontpage stories recounting the reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Together Again | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...girl I play has the most fabulous body in the world, but she's unaware of her sex appeal. All she wants to be is a wife and mother, but sex keeps getting in the way. She's like me, you might say." Collaring a local United Pressman, she crowed for quotation: "They're not hiding too much of me. Just enough so people can hear the dialogue." However, Jayne reserved her most intimate confidence-about her current flame, protein-packed Mickey ("Mr. Universe") Har-gitay-for Columnist Sidney Skolsky: "Mickey has a 52-inch chest expansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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