Word: stringer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salisbury, who was based in New York, gone about getting his story? On arriving in Birmingham, he had picked up an initial list of some 15 names from the local Times stringer, spent the next 48 hours traveling around by himself interviewing Birmingham citizens. City officials say he did not interview them. "Why, we never even knew the man was in town," says City Commissioner James W. Morgan, who acts as Birmingham's mayor. "If we had, we would have been delighted to take him around to see both the good and the bad." The moderate leaders...
After journeying deep into the Belgian Congo to photograph Dr. Carl K. Becker's hospital, Photographer Terence Spencer and TIME'S Rhodesian stringer Eric Robins were shocked when the publicity-shy Dr. Becker refused to allow any pictures. He finally relented on grounds that the world knows too little about the work of Christian missionaries. TIME'S team attempted to press on him a purely personal donation: their last remaining funds, 2,000 Congo francs, or about $40. Says Stringer Robins: "Dr. Becker put his hand on my shoulder and said kindly but firmly: 'No, please...
Reporting on the land of wonder in 1960 was the task of Brisbane Stringer Fred Hubbard, a transplanted Chicago newspaperman who has spent 13 years covering Australia, and Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow. They spent three weeks in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra interviewing scores of businessmen, actors, writers, architects, economists and government officials. Says Karnow, "I personally was so impressed with the country's potential that before I departed, I left material proof of my faith in Australia's future: I invested a modest sum in four Australian companies...
...columnist on the Post-Dispatch before he came to TIME in 1942. Tom Griffith, a graduate of the University of Washington ('36) and Harvard Nieman Fellow, was on the staff of the Seattle Times for six years as a reporter and assistant city editor, and also a TIME "stringer" before he joined the staff...
...Bill, 25, and Bob, 23, a pair of insurance brokers who had been hard-nosed, hard-skating forwards at Harvard. To make matters worse, Goalie Larry Palmer was knocked out with an injured knee. Subbing for him was a bushy-browed, strapping (6 ft. 1 in., 200 Ibs.) second-stringer named Jack McCartan, a former University of Minnesota All-America who liked to talk more about his feats as a college third baseman (.438 batting average) than as a goalie...