Word: staffers
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...Affairs on the conviction that isolationism had died with the last doughboy. The council figured that intelligent U.S. citizens would be interested in an intelligent look at the world around them. Foreign Correspondent Armstrong was hired as managing editor of the quarterly's two-man staff. (The other staffer was editor and onetime Harvard history professor Archibald Cary Coolidge.) From the start. Foreign Affairs set a standard for excellence that has not found a challenger. In the first issue. Elihu Root...
Plainly, despite all the gibes that have been thrown his way, there is something special about Dirksen. Says a White House staffer: "Who could dislike Dirksen? He gets his arm around your shoulder and, well, he's a total pro, able, cute and clever." He is also-as a result of his midlands upbringing in a plain, small town-trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. And when he traces his beginnings, as did Lincoln, in "the short and simple annals of the poor," those homely virtues take on a fresh meaning...
...ostensibly to study equality of opportunity for Continental women. He had in tow a couple of shapely technical advisers: Conine Huff, a former Miss U.S.A. contestant (36-24-36) and a $5,014 receptionist in his office, and Mrs. Tamara J. Wall, a divorcee, who is a $9,000 staffer on his House Education and Labor Committee. In Paris, Powell established his research headquarters at the fashionable Crillon hotel. In Greece, the Powell party enjoyed swimming and nightclubbing at a luxury seaside resort near Athens. As U.S. criticism of his jaunty junket mounted...
...this spirit that the National Committee for an Effective Congress (among its better-known leaders are Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger. father of White House Staffer Arthur Jr., Poet Archibald MacLeish, Harvard Law Professor Mark De Wolfe Howe, Political Scientist Hans Morgenthau) last week issued an unusual public report that amounted to a devastating blast against Teddy and an audible tut-tut at his big brother...
There were others who thought the Sentinel's problems were editorial. Described by one staffer as "the Hearst paper that most resembled a paper," the Sentinel tried hard to be one. But under Hearst, who bought the paper in 1924, it lost much of its independence and local voice. At the end it employed not a single fulltime editorial writer, relying instead on canned Hearst editorials sent out from New York; news-side staffers were assigned to write occasional local editorial comment on the side. A few of the striking Guildsmen will get their jobs back, although the Sentinel...