Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy parts of this press conference is that I learned over the radio this morning what it was about," he said. "That seemed to me to be a triumph of modern journalism . . . I think my function ought to be to live up to the advance report. I understood that you were going to question me about Point Four of the President's address [the spread of U.S. industrial techniques throughout the world] and so . . . I might as well plunge into that...
Three-Year Search. Sam Carr's arrest ended a three-year search. The Mounties had plastered Canada with "Wanted" signs after Carr disappeared early in 1946 just ahead of a subpoena from the Royal Commission on espionage. The commission, whose report gave a full chapter to Sam Carr, called him "the main Canadian cog" in the Russian military espionage organization in Canada...
Lyons reminds the journalistic profession that its stock with the reading public has fallen far. "It will take a chastened and informed effort to restore it," he declares, adding, "in very few spots is there any evidence of such an effort or even a recognition of its need." Reporters forfeited their function to the crystal-gazers. Worse, those newsmen who doubted the certainty of the polls "failed to express their doubts, partly by their intoxication with the accepted certainty; and partly, one may suspect, because they doubted that their papers would welcome a dissenting report...
Stowe and Woodstock, Vermont, report two to three inches of powder and fair to good conditions...
Before he opened Santa Anita 15 years ago, Strub sent aides to scout the eastern tracks and report in detail what was wrong with them. The findings: poor parking facilities, not enough elbow room in grandstands. So Doc ordered up the largest parking lot in the U.S. (215 acres of it) and an ultra-roomy grandstand. His attendants, ushers and gatemen were drilled in courtesy. Strub even handed out kindly advice to the uninitiated bettor, posted such warnings as: "Bet only what you can afford to lose, not what you hope...