Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alexis Kyrou, liaison man with the Greek Government, who arrived in a state of urbane sleepiness; they told him "unofficially" that it might be a good idea to postpone the five executions, because the condemned might be important witnesses for the Commission. Kyrou returned at 1 a.m. to report that his Government had agreed...
...London last week, a considerable fraction of the population rose from warm beds and sat shivering beside wirelesses to hear the 7 a.m. news report of the Battle of Adelaide. A blue-faced cabby with frosted eyebrows said to a chum: "We didn't ought to have sent them." In a swank Pall Mall club, an elderly gentle man turned from the ticker mumbling: "Damn bad luck." All England knew and feared the name of Australia's great batsman, a wiry stockbroker, Don Bradman. With his help, last week, the Australian eleven held the British to a draw...
Last week, Rocky was deep in trouble for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer (TIME, Feb. 3). At Stillman's Gym, the boys were .whispering about him. Said one: "I say he shouldn't get it ... he done right dint he ... he nixes the guy, don't he?" Said another: "He goes ... I say he gets it." The man in the street didn't want to see Rocky "get it" too hard. Rocky had turned down the bribe, even if he hadn't reported it (though he had reportedly feigned a sore back...
...openly sneered, Howard Hughes's sexsational The Outlaw was playing to record crowds at the London Pavilion. Last week 23-year-old Pressagent Suzanne Warner hit a headline jackpot. She lured a psychologist with a psycho-galvanometer (a gadget that measures emotional reactions) into the Pavilion. Her report: ¶ Critic Walter Wilcox of the Sunday Dispatch, who had penned a cool review, had a warm, 24-centimeter reaction to a close-up of Jane Russell's parted lips. ¶Hostile Critic Dick Richards of the Sunday Pictorial registered a more-than-friendly 28 centimeters to Jane...
...issue of atomic energy itself, Lilenthal's opposition to domestic military control is well-known, having been shown clearly in his famous report to the President last spring which was made the basis for the Baruch proposals. Therefore, refusal by the Senate to confirm him in his new office might well give the military another energy developments in this country. Although they lost when the McMahon Bill was passed last summer, although public opinion polls of the past year have demonstrated a steadily increasing majority of the American people in favor of civilian control, the military and their congressional supporters...