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...pleasure is to be on the spot when the news happens. Sometimes he finds himself in a tighter spot than some of the participants in the events he is reporting, and this duty becomes less pleasurable. In the past fortnight, two TIMEmen, Africa Correspondent Lee Griggs and Guatemala Stringer Robert Rosenhouse, found themselves too close to the news for comfort...
Scott Harshberger capped a 72 yard march in the opening period by plunging over from the one yard line for the Crimson's first score. Bill Humenuk's third quarter six-yard pass to Bob Stringer accounted for the other touchdown. Tom Stephenson was the standout for the Yardlings...
...While in the Trib's Washington bureau, he worked as a stringer-correspondent for the young magazine TIME...
After graduation, Cabot Lodge married Emily Sears, the daughter of another socially impeccable Boston family, and became a reporter for the Boston Transcript, the New York Herald Tribune (and a stringer correspondent for TIME). Among his assignments: covering the conventions of 1924, 1928 and 1932, accompanying Calvin Coolidge's pacification expedition to Nicaragua, interviewing Mussolini. After a four-year warmup in the state legislature, Cabot Lodge was ready in 1936 to try for a national political career, and although his Democratic opponent for the Senate, the late James Michael Curley, belittled his youth and called him "Little Boy Blue...
...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...