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Three journalists, two from the Boston Herald Traveler and one from the New York World Telegram & Sun, will address the Law School Forum tonight at 8 p.m. at the New Lecture Hall, in a discussion of the "Power of the Press...
...Ever since that first phone call from Salesman Hoffman, Sinclair Weeks has been besieged by a steady stream of telephone calls, letters, telegrams and personal visits from auto salesmen eager to prove to him that salesmanship still flourishes. 'Here's one salesman who is rising from the dead . . .' was the way a California dealer began his telegram. At least two dozen salesmen, like Hoffman, used the telephone technique, and some have phoned several times to follow up their first sales efforts. Long-distance calls have come from such widely scattered points as Lubbock, Texas, Detroit, Minneapolis...
...Washington area called in person at Weeks's office and left their lavishly illustrated '54 sales brochures. Wrote one man on the calling card he left with a Buick folder: 'After reading the TIME article, I decided to conduct a personal sales campaign.' A telegram from one dealer in Eureka, Calif, tried flattery: 'A man in your position should definitely buy a Nash "Airflyte." ' A dealer from Indianapolis wired his direct pitch, making traditional use of the salesman's superlative: 'I herewith ask you to buy America's greatest...
Last week, when Indiana's Republican Senator William E. Jenner charged that Fair Dealers "shamefully" sent American troops to Korea where "they were supposed to be defeated" by the Communists (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the pro-Eisenhower New York World-Telegram and Sun tried a different way of handling the story. The Telly thought Jenner's charge was Page One news, but in a rare editorial note preceding the news story, it also warned its readers to beware: " [We print] the following dispatch because it is a statement by a United States Senator. It should be pointed out, however...
...What was wonderful," said Olin Downes of the New York Times, "was the tenderness, the depth and subtlety of her scene with Wotan and the sweeping drama of the ensuing passage with Siegmund." Wrote the World-Telegram & Sun's Robert Bagar: "The lady did herself-as well as Wagner-proud . . . [And] she sprang about with something approaching the graceful...