Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Want to Bet? What did it all have to do with the assassination? Garrison contended that Shaw, who claims that he is innocent, used the alias of Clay Bertrand, a name that had been introduced into the Warren Commission report by Louisiana Attorney Dean Andrews Jr. Andrews, who frequently defends accused homosexuals, said "Bertrand" called him on the afternoon of the assassination and asked him to defend Oswald. While the FBI says that Andrews admitted he made the whole thing up, he insists that the story is true-but he does not say that Shaw and "Bertrand" are the same...
Luce believed that "America's great achievement has been business"?and he charged a new magazine, FORTUNE, to report business not in dull statistics but through drama, personalities and technology. After a year of careful preparation, FORTUNE'S first issue, an elegant and handsome magazine with a black and bronze cover, appeared in February 1930. Luce later said that it was difficult to imagine a magazine less likely to survive: FORTUNE had walked in on the Great Depression. As a later FORTUNE managing editor, Eric Hodgins, put it: "Almost on the eve of FORTUNE's publication, the whole...
...Well," began the report, "we've got another two-car accident, oh boy! One driver is out of his car kicking the side of the other car. Now the car that was being kicked has pulled away. Now the other car is in hot pursuit. We're going to follow and see what happens. The injured party has apparently caught his victim or - ha ha - his aggressor. One car is crossways in the righthand lane and the other directly behind him. We'll keep an eye on the scene...
...white Naugahyde upholstering. A onetime U.S. Army pilot who is now a traffic watcher for radio station WXYZ, Stutesman is one of a growing tribe of hardy newsmen (and women) who hop into a Cessna or helicopter in the early-dawn hours, brave snow, fog and smog to report the traffic below and watch for fastbreaking news stories like fires and explosions...
Hazards Aloft. When a helicopter broadcaster spots unusual activity below, he stops directing traffic and starts gathering news. Last spring Milwaukee's Burany heard a police report that a car had been stolen. He spotted the car below, tailed the thief after he had abandoned it, finally guided the police to him. "There just wasn't any place for him to hide," says Burany. Major Bruce Payne of Los Angeles' KGIL helped police pursue a herd of escaped horses that were galloping through suburban Burbank...