Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman camp responded to this bluff and soldierly statement with alacrity. Speaking with some warmth, Press Secretary Charles G. Ross announced: "Apparently General Eisenhower is being heckled and embarrassed by stories [from] Key West. I cannot imagine what foundation there is for [them]. The President wants it to go on the record-he and General Eisenhower are good friends, and always have been. I'll say now, the President has not discussed with 'intimates' the possibility of General Eisenhower's becoming a candidate...
...course Spokesman Ross was sidestepping the issue, as his press conference well knew. Whether newsmen qualified as "intimates" or not, Harry Truman had obviously gotten the same impression as many another politico: as long as Ike looked like a candidate, talked like a candidate and acted like a candidate he might as well be tagged...
...When Ross had offered his last crumb of inconsequential news and the gag had been played to death, Reporter Truman talked a while on behalf of the President of the U.S. "I think this is the best vacation I have had down here," he said. "I think the family enjoyed it too." Margaret and Bess had flown to Washington at midweek, a prompt signal for Adviser Clark Clifford to cheat on shaving. The President himself was due to leave for Washington Dec. 20 and to take off three days later for Christmas with the family in Independence...
Metropole (by William Walden; produced by Max Gordon) was a short-lived satiric farce which tried to poke fun at The New Yorker magazine and its fabulous editor, Harold W. Ross. Calling the magazine Metropole and the editor Frederick M. Hill, it depicted the wacky office life of a well-mannered publication, portrayed an explosive editor suffering from absentmindedness and ulcers...
Metropole suggested that a Ross by any other name is just no Ross at all; nor, despite Lee Tracy's expert performance, any real fun. Besides shackling The New Yorker to a leaden plot, it spoofed it with a stridency better suited to the old Police Gazette. Metropole did have funny moments; but they were mere lampposts on a long, dark, unpaved, downhill road...