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...There is no thrill in journalism like getting a scoop, and this was the biggest scoop of our times. Professionally speaking, no one can ever take that away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fidelity to Fidel | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...province. Led there by intermediaries. Matthews sat for three 'hours with a bearded and gabby young guerrilla leader named Fidel Castro, puffing Havana cigars and discussing, in whispers, Castro's plans to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The rendezvous with Castro did indeed produce an impressive scoop. Until Matthews' three-part series appeared in the Times, much of the world had been led to believe Castro dead, his rebel movement aborted. In Matthews' glowing, uncritical account. Castro came back to life looking for all the world like a tropical Robin Hood with a sturdy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fidelity to Fidel | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...secret that the ball went flying over Boone's head on the snap, and that Boone, the referee, and Craze led a mad dash in hot pursuit. Boone reached the pigskin at his own five-yard line, tried to scoop it up, got hit, and heard a thud or two as Craze and Harvard tackle Dick Diehl leaped over him. Craze won the ball, and Lehigh won the game. Larko kicked the extra point to make the score...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Lehigh Downs Harvard, 22-17, On Breaks in Fourth Quarter | 10/2/1961 | See Source »

Filming the ballroom scene at Tregaron, he barked his guttural directions from the camera boom. "Stop talkink!" he screamed at the milling mob, which included Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop"') Jackson and Washington Hostess Gwen Cafritz. When a waiter looked at the camera, he thumbed him "Oudt! Und keep valkink!" When another smiled, Preminger tossed him oudt too. A magazine photographer got in the way, and Preminger fumed. "But I'm from Look!'' cried the lensman. Stormed the Director: "You LOOK! Get oudt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Advise und Consent | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...with wire wheels and a dashboard "assist bar" for nervous passengers to hang on to, the new Thunderbird can be converted into a pseudo two-seater by slipping a fiber-glass tonneau cover over the back seat. The nation's bestselling compact, the Falcon, adds a dummy air scoop on the hood that gives the car a racier silhouette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rites of Summer | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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