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...Russian paper out of the 8,639 dailies and weeklies served by the Tass monopoly was likely to use much of Dodd's voluminous copy. But his between-jobs assignment as a Tass stringer in Seattle last week (he was about to become Harry Bridges' publicity man) was typical of the way the world's least-known big news agency operates. It feeds vastly more wordage (an estimated 200,000 words a day) into its six-floor Moscow nerve center than Russian editors ever...
...Truth" & Co. Redin's trial and acquittal, like all Tass news from the U.S., was relayed through its bureau in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. Except for four Washington correspondents, headed by earnest, well-liked Larry Todd, its U.S. staff of 18 reporters is based in New York. (The Russians limit each U.S. news organization in Moscow to one or two correspondents.) Only five of Tass's 18 U.S. men are Russians...
...agency's U.S. boss is black-haired Vladimir Pravdin (translation: "Man of Truth"), veteran Tassman now vacationing in the U.S.S.R. with his family. Acting director for the summer is slim handsome, secretive Alexander Alexandrov 32 who has spent three of his nine Tass years in the U.S., says he is not a Party member...
...small, twinkly Harry Freeman, a 40-year-old native New Yorker who has broken in a brace of imported bosses since joining Tass in 1929 He speaks little Russian, cables his stories in English. Tass sends 7,000 to 8,000 words a day about the U.S. to Moscow; its report is light on crime, scandal and feature news, heavy on production figures, U.S. culture, high-level politics, anything critical of the Kremlin...
News by Air. Tass's ancestral predecessor was the Czarist Russian Telegraph Agency, which worked hand-in-glove with the tight world news cartel promoted by England's Julius Reuter. In early Bolshevik days it was revived as Rosta; Tass, born in 1925, took over Rosta ten years later...