Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught in the eavesdropping act: Jack Anderson, a legman for Newspeeper Columnist Drew Pearson, and Baron (name, not title) Ignatius Shacklette, chief investigator for the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight and a veteran congressional shamus. Next day the House subcommittee fired Shacklette (but Pearson kept Anderson on, saying: "I need him"). Then, the Goldfine entourage, hastened by a belated report from Goldfine's secretary, Mildred Paperman, that her room had been rifled of important documents, moved out of the Sheraton-Carlton amid much tub-thumping and hoopla, took up new quarters across K Street in 19 rooms...
...been a lost art since Voltaire and Swift, and Monocle covers the trail for another decade. "Summer 1958" is the Special H-Bomb Issue of the "leisurely quarterly"--so leisurely indeed that it flounders about for forty-eight pages of poor writing and bad makeup elicting more grimaces than grins...
Tickets providing bus transportation, rooms in private homes, passes for all concerts in the Shed, admission to all special events, and swimming privileges--everything except meals--are still available in Grays Hall. The cost...
Delivery by B-47. In Fairbanks, Managing Editor Sundborg got Snedden 's story on the presses, whirled out the last pages of a special four-color, 40-page issue. He hustled 2,000 copies to nearby Ladd Air Force Base, where a B-47 was about to take off for Washington. By lunch time next day, every Congressman and Senator had a copy of Snedden's News-Miner headlined: CONGRESS APPROVES ALASKA STATEHOOD...
...year-old Publisher Snedden, any less dramatic performance would have been an anticlimax to his arduous, four-year campaign to get Alaska into the Union. Not even Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9) worked harder. Every fall he put out a special 144-page, four-color issue on the glories of Alaska, sent a copy to every member of Congress and to the editor of every U.S. paper with more than 50,000 circulation...