Word: seltzers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that, as Herald Tribune Correspondent Bert Andrews pointed out, "there's very little opportunity here for any exclusives. It's just a matter of grinding it out." But there were beats of a sort by those willing to take chances. The day the convention started, Editor Louis Seltzer of the Cleveland Press climbed right out on a limb with a Page One story headlined: IKE WILL WIN ON THE 3RD OR 4TH BALLOT. Two days later in Chicago, Publisher John Knight predicted in the Daily News that Ike would be the candidate and Nixon his running mate...
...taken almost six years and $400,000-plus to put it together. Under Editor Leon E. Seltzer, 150 scholars worked in 55 different languages, collecting the latest facts & figures about 130,000 different places. But the job of making a gazetteer, they learned, is more than just collecting. It also involves disentangling a baffling mishmash of world statistics...
...their figures straight, Seltzer's gazetteers had to explore far beyond the stacks of the major U.S. libraries. They pored over government manuals, foreign industrial reports, newspapers, schoolbooks and road maps. They wrote to mayors, postmasters, and even to the Dalai Lama. They wrote to every provincial government in China. By the time the Reds took over, most of the replies were in-the most complete collection of data on China available to date...
...this down-to-earth piece of writing and timely document of good common sense, which should be digested by every adult in these United States, I nominate Seltzer as TIME'S 1951 "Man of the Year." BEN F. HOLZMAN Beverly Hills, Calif...
...country needs more men like Seltzer. MABEL I. MORRISON Chicago...