Word: timesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Timesmen called the Democratic turn accurately in Indiana. In Wisconsin they correctly picked Democrat William Proxmire for re-election to the U.S. Senate, but muffed the Governor race. In Arizona, after predicting that Democrat Ernest McFarland would unseat Republican Barry Goldwater, the Times took a second look, cautiously rated the race (which Goldwater won handily) a "toss-up." It missed Hugh Scott's Republican victory in Pennsylvania's Senate race, and Republican Senator John Bricker's defeat in Ohio. Getting right down to the congressional level, the Times stubbed its forecasting toe in some cases...
...byliners than the massive New York Times. With its 50 foreign correspondents alone, there can be and sometimes are differences in interpretation of the same situation to be spotted by the close reader. Last week readers close and casual were enjoying a dispute of higher visibility between two top Timesmen. The debaters: Pundit Arthur Krock, 71, and his longtime friend and colleague James ("Scotty") Reston, 48, chief of the Times's Washington bureau...
Powers That Be. By virtue of its overlapping and horizonless geography, Los Angeles has also grown beyond the conn of single powers like the Chamber of Commerce or even the select, sacred California Club, whose once-powerful members coached the city from the sidelines (and relegated newsmen-even Timesmen-to the rear elevators of its pink brick sanctuary on South Flower Street). Instead, any random list of the most influential Southern Californians would include both native sons and latecomers whose only connection with each other is that they find themselves appointed more or less to the same civic committees...
Four Manhattan newsmen who refused to answer questions put by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee during its investigation of Communism in the press (TIME, Jan. 16) were indicted last week by a Washington grand jury for contempt of Congress. They are New York Timesmen Alden Whitman, 43, Robert Shelton, 30, Seymour Peck, 39, and ex-Daily News Reporter William A. Price, 41. All had invoked the First Amendment (freedom of the press) in either refusing to identify onetime Communist associates or refusing to answer questions about possible Communist affiliations. The Timesmen, said the Times, will keep their jobs "until there...
...Timesmen reached only half of the reporters, and instead of Gallup-type "yes or no" questions, asked for opinions-which often turned out to be foggy. Nevertheless, concluded the Times survey: "The prevailing opinion . . . was that [Truman's] charge could not be sustained against [Eisenhower], but that it applied" to other parts of the Republican Administration. A representative answer: "I believe I would say that the President has not embraced 'McCarthyism' at all, personally. I do think that Brownell went so far in his accusation as to utilize, even if unwittingly, the McCarthy technique...