Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news looks to a TIME editor in New York as compared to a correspondent in the field, Rospigliosi has this to say: "Here the size of things changes, and the importance of detail increases. In New York a particular story is viewed as a fraction of a whole, while in the field a correspondent has no real way of telling where the particular story he is working on stands in the whole category of the week's news being assembled at TIME. Therefore, the more details, the more accurately, the better...
...slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise. Said one of his Minneapolis lieutenants: "The trouble with Humphrey is he never takes time out. He's never alone with himself. If the guy would only sit down with himself and say, 'What am I all about?' But he's afraid to ask himself that question...
...friends could say in his favor that he had also proved himself an honest and able public servant, with a quick, retentive mind, inexhaustible vigor, and considerable political courage. His point of view, born of the Dust Bowl, was honestly arrived at and stoutly held...
...being bottled up ... [Nowadays, even] some 15th assistant to an assistant secretary can succeed in bamboozling some of the best news hands in the country. But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands. All they have to say is: 'This is off the record, boys,' and our reporters can then trot in dutifully and tell us that they know the whole story, but that they can't write...
...Star-Times was already practicing what Isaacs was preaching. His instructions to his staff: "When they say, 'This is off the record,' you just say you're sorry . . . and walk out. You can always find out what [they're] trying to freeze up on. It's your job to crack that story...