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...last week he got a rude surprise. When he tried to make appointments for talks with General Matthew Ridgway, Admiral Robert B. Carney, Lieut. General James Gavin and other high brass, he was turned down cold. Other Pentagon newsmen had similar experiences. An Army, Navy, Air Force Journal staffer asked for obituary material on a Marine brigadier general, did not get it until the handout was marked "reviewed and cleared" by a Navy captain...
When he concluded that the sap rises in trees because the spring wind causes a pumping action in the branches, a staffer, missing the chance for an argument-provoking essay in pseudo science, made the mistake of writing a Trib story setting out the scientific facts. The Colonel noted: "Our sap expert missed a trick...
...Times, with as many as 84 Linotype machines at j work, had an 18-hour head start in setting the text. But the Chicago Trib, which learned how to print fast from photoengravings during a long (1947-49) typographical strike, remembered an easy way to catch up. A Trib staffer flew two copies of the documents to Chicago, where the paper quickly made photoengravings of the full conference record. Thus it was able to print a supplement with a reproduction of the record.* The Trib, however, was so rushed that it did not have time to write enough sidebar stories...
...villain of the Government's case and the only Star Co. staffer named in the criminal indictment* the paper's advertising director, Emil A. Sees, 59, who has run the company's ad department since...
...operation. Sees's motto, according to one witness, was "The more you squeeze [an advertiser] the more you get out of [him]." He often peppered his staff with such memos as "I notice Sullivan is still in the Journal-Post. Why? Why? Why?" An ex-Star staffer testified that Sees would "pound his fist on the desk and say, 'Go tell that so-and-so he's wasting his money advertising any place but in the Star...