Word: stringmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper. Often while reporters huddled in anterooms, Schechter, in the name of Lowell Thomas, was getting newsworthy statements over his wire. Before the press-radio feud was ended, he had correspondents all over the country. Even such eminents as Maryland's late Governor Ritchie served as Schechter stringmen...
Recognized as the most ingenious, best-organized radio newsgathering agency in Europe, the CBS bureau, supervised by smart Paul White in New York, now employs eight full-time correspondents, has four stringmen on tap for special assignments. From London, the bureau's European chief, Edward Murrow, onetime president of the National Student Federation of America, wields an efficient baton over this radio symphony. Among stars that he commands are Thomas Grandin, who patrolled Columbia's Paris beat, and William L. Shirer, whose talks from Berlin have established him as the ablest newscaster of them all. Roving assistants...
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