Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vienna, where correspondents from the Russian news agency Tass have always steered clear of Western newsmen, Tass-men have started wining & dining U.S. reporters in nightclubs, sending them gifts of caviar and vodka...
Black Borders. On the news of Stalin's death, the wire services not only beat their own correspondents again, but they also got the news to their clients two hours before the Russian people heard it. The London bureaus picked up a broadcast by Tass, the official Russian news agency, to provincial papers, telling them how to play the death story when it was announced. Tass ordered front pages bordered in black with a portrait of Stalin in military uniform filling three columns on the right side of the page then listed five stories (official death notice, funeral arrangements...
...broadcast, attributing the report to the official Soviet news agency Tass, said the Russian Premier is suffering from loss of speech and paralysis. It added that his right arm and leg are paralyzed, he is breathing with difficulty, and his heart is affected...
This was the text of the broadcast, which attributed the report to the Soviet news agency Tass...
Reporters began to line up a full hour and a half before the start of President Eisenhower's first press conference last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In all, 294 newsmen were on hand, including Tass Correspondent Mikhail Fedorov. The crowd was so big that only newsmen with White House press cards were admitted, thus closing the conference to editors, publishers and other visiting firemen who may have hoped...