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That forgotten, imprisoned Associated Pressman William N. Oatir...
...service to supply news copy for radio-station broadcasts? At the time, network radio stations were limited by the big press services to only two five-minute broadcasts a day, and most stations had only the sketchiest of news-writing services. Moore, a former United Pressman, raised $150,000, founded Transradio Press Service in Manhattan to supply news to radio stations by teletype and shortwave. Transradio prospered; by 1939 it had 400 radio and newspaper clients, 600 correspondents and stringers around the world...
...espionage trial of Associated Pressman William Oatis, the bits of evidence the Czechs let out seemed to prove that the charge of "spying" was nothing more than routine diligent news reporting. Last week a transcript of the trial, received by the State Department, proved the point conclusively. In fact, State Department officials were surprised that Reporter Oatis, on the stand after 71 days of Communist imprisonment and interrogation, was able to make his case so clear...
There was need for haste. Fadayan Islam was acting ominously. Day before, its young (27), wild-eyed leader, Seyed Safavi, secretly met a United Pressman in a mud hut in Teheran's outskirts, there proudly announced that he personally was responsible for the assassination of Premier Razmara (TIME, March 19). Asked, "Has Your Eminence other persons on your list?" Safavi replied: "There are quite a few who must be pushed down the incline to hell." Added Safavi: "There are 5,000 people who would immediately give their lives at my command...
...senior wire-service correspondent at the White House, United Pressman Merriman Smith, 37, has enjoyed the affection of President Truman, the esteem of his colleagues and a time-honored privilege: he closes the presidential press conferences with his "Thank you, Mr. President." But at last week's conference (which Smith skipped), the President had no thanks for Mr. Smith. Harry Truman, notably in a touchy mood (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), tartly remarked that one news service at least had been something less than objective in its coverage of the Truman-MacArthur meeting on Wake Island. What galled the President...