Word: staffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Correspondents all over the country sent in copy, at space rates. A moonlighting Washington newsman supplied a Capital column, whimsically bylined G. Schenk Gott ("God's gift" in idiomatic German). The Daily Press sent a man to follow Republican Presidential Candidate Goldwater about the country, another staffer to cover the Ecumenical Conference in the Vatican. When the Warren Commission report became available. Dworkin flew a reporter to Washington for a copy, published 13,000 words of summary text...
...times an hour they approached each staffer with the same question-"What are you doing?" Everybody knew who they were: efficiency experts from Chicago's Alexander Proudfoot Co. Last week everybody knew the result of their visit: it was all too easily measured by the empty space where desks had been moved from the newsroom...
...York Herald Tribune Staffer Harry Marsh, whose duties include rounding up and reprinting editorials from other papers, was jolted by a wry campaign observation in the Buffalo Evening News. "A good turnout can be expected at the polls in November," predicted the News. "Most voters used up their apathy watching the conventions." Could it be, Marsh wondered, that the lusterless campaign had provided a setting for editorial whimsy? By last week, with publication of the second of two editorial samplers, the Trib's Marsh had made his point: ∙The Louisville Courier-Journal noted that a local Republican office...
With the departure of Walter Jenkins, the White House staffer who emerges as most important is Billy Don Moyers, 30, who, in addition to his own duties, now takes over those of Jenkins...
...preacher who has directed the intellectual side of L.B.J.'s shop with quiet efficiency since Johnson moved into the White House. He supervises such speechwriters as Richard Goodwin, Douglass Cater and Horace Busby, tosses in the scriptural citations of which Lyndon is so fond. Better than any other staffer, he knows Johnson's mercurial moods, manages to assuage the boss with well-reasoned argument, never shouts or panics. Yet such self-control comes at a price: Moyers suffers from a chronic ulcer...