Word: staffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Writer Ed Shook was a city boy in the farm country, worked from time to time on a farm in southern Missouri, did his share of agricultural reporting as a staffer on the Kansas City Star. Reporter Art White was a town boy in city territory (Orange, N.J.) who has what might be called a consuming interest in agriculture. After one magnificent dinner at the Shuman farm, both White and his subject had to suspend the interview for an afternoon nap. Researcher Pat Gordon, who comes from Houston and remembers pleasant vacations on her grandfather's ranch in western...
...students. For example, a young woman garment worker and mother of three was recently arrested for shoplifting a $10 dress at Gimbels. Normally, Mrs. S. would have been searched, grilled, and perhaps held for days in Manhattan's dreary House of Detention for Women. Instead, a Vera staffer spent 15 minutes checking her New York roots -job, family, residence-and her lack of any prior record. On the staffer's recommendation, the desk lieutenant issued a summons, and Mrs. S. was out of the station house in 90 minutes. Five days later, she appeared in court and eventually...
...owns the Early Bird satellite. Known as a first-rate administrator, his appointment to the $30,000-a-year post is viewed with wariness at USIA, where the chief concern is Marks's lack of knowledge about the countries in which the agency operates. Said one top USIA staffer about the appointment: "There are no great screams of enthusiasm...
...home with The New Yorker. His article reveals few inside secrets,* but with customary hyperbole he captures some of the magazine's musty-fusty atmosphere: the multicolored memo paper serving a variety of subtle editorial purposes; the ritual cocktails at the Algonquin Hotel, to which no newly hired staffer dare come until he is formally-but oh so casually-invited; the religious regard for the offices of deceased or departed writers, in which all the original bric-a-brac is kept reverentially in place...
...Practically everyone on the paper is looking around for a new job," says a staffer. The education correspondent recently returned to his old beat on the Times of London; a quartet of reporters hired to make up a so-called "probe team" quit after finding little freedom to probe...