Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scarlet-coated Mounties had taken over the President's protection from the U.S. Secret Service. As they clustered around, and Staff Sergeant C. W. Graham asked for the Truman autograph, it looked like a scene from Rose Marie. Before he got on the train that night, Harry Truman thanked the Mounties with an expansive: "I'd like to take them with...
...Model. Lazareff and a talented young (26) Resistance leader named Aristide Blank had moved in on Paris with the puny staff of the underground Défense de la France. They renamed it France-Soir, packed it with straight news for Parisians who got almost everything but news in most of the French press. France-Soir pushed swiftly to France's top circulation (about 600,000 daily). U.S. newsmen credit its success to shrewd application of tried-&-true U.S. tricks: big, crisp headlines, heavy accent on crime, bright feature stories and splashy makeup. Although he dashes off headlines with...
...program for New Yorkers, CBS Views the Press (WCBS, Sat. 6:15-6:30 p.m. E.D.T.), is aired in the well-known, orange-crush tones of Newscaster Don Hollenbeck. Hollenbeck also writes the script with the aid of the CBS news staff and his own 20 years of newspaper, wire-service and radio reporting experience...
...successor to veteran Editor Percy Cole, another onetime newsman, Tom O'Donoghue will boss a staff of 18 crack (180 words per min. or better) shorthand reporters. They work in pairs-15 minutes at a stretch-in the curtained press gallery above the Speaker's chair. Sometimes Hansard gets things wrong, but it's official, even so, and its bound volumes can be quoted in a court of law. Hansard never identifies a man's party, only his district: he is supposedly representing his entire constituency. When Emanuel Shinwell slapped Commander Bower in 1938 for saying...
...Germans who have known no god but Hitler. The school's stated aim: to fill "the need for a definite and satisfying faith on which to rebuild the life of Europe." No Church of England outpost, St. Michael's House has an all-German lecturing and administrative staff. A British priest acts as warden...