Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With school out, a scholarly, wide-eyed NBC trainee was down in Washington rubbing notebooks with the swift, sure newshands on the White House beat. The apprentice: TV Quiz Winner ($129,000) and Columbia University Instructor Charles Van Doren. His first report: "It's a little frightening...
...these military minuses notwithstanding, the J.C.S. entertained no military question as to the single necessity of going into Lebanon. Adjusting the contingency war plans to the specifics of the hour, Chairman Nate Twining needed only a 90-minute run-through with the Chiefs before he was ready to report at a National Security Council meeting to the President of the U.S. "Nate," said one NSC observer, "knew exactly what ought to be done and what he could...
...Western intelligence report describes him: "His vices are vanity, obstinacy, suspicion, avidity for power. His strengths are complete self-confidence, great resilience, courage and nervous control, willingness to take great risks, great tactical skill and stubborn attachment to initial aims. He gets boyish pleasure out of conspiratorial doings. Has a real streak of self-pity. While a patient, subtle organizer, he can lose his head...
...recession thrown a serious chill into the American consumer's mood of sunny, open-pocketed optimism? For a while last winter and early spring, it appeared that the recession indeed had, as autos, appliances and many other consumer hard goods turned down. Last week, in a report that was as heartening as it was authoritative, the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, often called upon to test consumer attitudes for the Federal Reserve Board, reported that beneath the consumer's somewhat hesitant exterior still beats a buying heart of gold...
...this were really a detective story, it would be unfair to report that Ilona, the slinky Hungarian blonde, really has nothing to do with the plot, or to warn the reader about the sneaky German archaeologist who thinks he has found a piece of a Dead Sea Scroll. But the book is less a whodunit than a witty who-said-it-in Author Davey's phrase, a shakerful of "the martini of human kindness." Very dry, too, without unnecessary olives...