Word: pressroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Execution Night in Nürnberg, and in the spacious second-floor pressroom at the courthouse, the air was heavy with tension and tobacco smoke. Eight newsmen, chosen by lot, had gone to see the war criminals die. To kill time, the 60-odd correspondents who were left behind paced the floor restlessly, watched each other with guarded eyes, plotted how they might scoop the pool. The minutes and hours ticked by. Around the world, they knew, deadlines were coming & going, while editors stood impatiently over teletypes...
...narrator is Jack Burden, a newspaperman and an angry fellow full of the sardonic lingo of the pressroom. The story he unreels with a series of flashbacks and asides is the story of Willie Stark, a poor farmer's awkward, hulking son from Mason City. Willie got his political start at home as county treasurer. He was honest, and that was why a Democratic faction in the state picked him up in the backwoods in 1926 and ran him in the primary for governor...
...psychiatrists, with yeoman help from the boys in the pressroom, explained George to Chicago by saying that Iris creator, Bill, was a duo-personality-that Bill Heirens had made George up the way children invent playmates. By such a device, they said, Bill Heirens could remain an average son and student, date nice girls and go to church, and at the same time carry on a one-man crime wave to make even Chicago's hair rise. Chicago's hair rose, but the back of its neck tingled pleasantly...
Storm Center. At the heart of all the whoopdedoo was a dead calm: nobody was excited in the quiet, blue-walled pressroom of the Criminal Courts Building where Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur laid the scene of their famed newspaper play. Grey survivors of Front Pager Hildy Johnson's day were at work on the story. Said 63-year-old Albert Benziger of the Herald-American: "This is without doubt the damnedest story we've ever had. Hildy would be having a hell of a time with...
Young Bill has played it safe & sane since his teens. In those younger days he was a lank kid with a toothy grin, a penchant for flying, no allergy to work. On school vacations he worked as a "fly boy" in the pressroom at his father's New York Mirror. By the time he was 23 he was president of the American, and nobody objected. He earned the fond regard of Manhattan cops and firemen by plugging to get them higher pay. Occasionally he went nightclubbing with Irving Berlin...