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...holding profound respect for Hagerty's professional ability, Ike had referred to him as "my technician." After Denver the phrase was "my friend." More and more often Ike would pop his head out of his office, look around and inquire: "Where's Jim?" Says another White House staffer: "He just wants to know where Jim is because, I guess, he feels better when Jim is around." Usually Hagerty still has to check with the President before answering press questions on substantive issues. "But," he says, "I think I know the President's feelings and philosophy so well...
...most of them, including a 1950 Pulitzer for Edmund Stevens' reporting on Russia, for its international coverage. With seven "overseas" bureaus -the Monitor considers "foreign" a derogatory word-it has one of the best-seasoned corps of foreign correspondents in the business. Explains British-born, 25-year London Staffer John May: "What I write, they print-and for almost any newspaperman, this is a consummation devoutly to be wished for and less and less likely to be consummated...
...tendency to be a house organ for the military. This it does with out shame or doubt, meticulously listing in country-weekly style all military transfers (sometimes thousands an issue), runs a chatty society section devoted to service doings, plus a vital statistics column in which, as one staffer says, "an Army brasshat has to be mentioned to make the birth official...
...years as a New York Daily News staffer, Lowell Limpus' byline topped stories that filled 83 fat folders in the paper's morgue. Among them was one that had never been printed. When longtime Reporter (and sometime night city editor) Limpus died of a heart ailment last week at 60, the city desk pulled it out of the files. It was Limpus' obit, and at the top was a note: "Do me one final favor and use this instead of an effusion by somebody else...
...show the right side of things, Grit has a staff of 22 headed by Editor Kenneth Dean Rhone, 50, a staffer for 26 years, who got his start, while a student at the University of Michigan, as "director of tourist publicity" for hometown Williamsport's Chamber of Commerce. Editor Rhone gets steady contributions from a corps of 100 part-time correspondents around the nation, carries weekly some $20,000 worth of ads. Grit comes out in three editions each week: city and area (40,000), state (112,000) and national (728,000). Subscriptions are almost all hustled...