Word: thimmesch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white turkey like you will be easy to spot," a policeman warned New York Correspondent Nick Thimmesch as he started down Harlem's notorious 111th Street. "So if anybody bothers you, tell them you are a welfare worker delivering a check...
Covering Nelson Rockefeller from handshake to handshake in Oregon last week, Correspondent Nick Thimmesch realized that quite a lot was happening. Nick has been following Rockefeller ever since the New York Governor set out on the campaign for the 1964 Presidential nomination, and he knows how the candidate performs and what reaction follows.* And so, at midweek, he cast a sidewise glance at the polls that unanimously predicted a victory for Henry Cabot Lodge, and sent the editors in New York a wire: "There is a strong flow toward Battling Nelson...
Soon after the Oregon result was clear, the editors decided to postpone the nonpolitical cover that was coming off the press and switch to Nelson Rockefeller. Working largely from the reporting of Thimmesch and San Francisco Correspondent Roger Stone, who covered the general side of the Oregon campaign, Writers David Lee and Ronald Kriss put together the cover story for Senior Editor Champ Clark. In the process, all of them found renewed confidence in an old principle: political polls may stir up a lot of publicity, but they are no substitute for knowing, thinking journalists...
Manhattan Attorney Richard Nixon, 50, relaxed, settled back on his office sofa, and for some 50 minutes talked freely to TIME'S New York Correspondent Nick Thimmesch about the 1964 Republican presidential nomination...
Washington Correspondent Neil MacNeil rode with Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton on an official visit to a mental institution, and New York Correspondent Nick Thimmesch went aboard a cancerbenefit gambling ship with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his bride. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele drove out to Gettysburg for a two-hour interview with an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. Reporter Steele found the former President profoundly committed to the proposition that another Republican should move into the White House in 1965, and equally convinced that the contest for the nomi nation should be wide open...