Word: timesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that even the Times's Washington bureau had no inkling of the project. After the tests, the pair found many scientists who wanted all the data made public, but none who was able-or willing-to lay it all out in one package. As their material grew, the Timesmen repeatedly urged the Pentagon to release the story in full...
...trying to find new proposals for solving the problem of Germany." Elsewhere in the same issue the Times, which had printed a front-page-dope story two days before predicting just such a shift in U.S. policy, reported world reaction to the press conference over interpretation, quickly threshed by Timesmen abroad. From London: SECRETARY'S VIEW DISTURBS BRITISH. From Bonn: BONN is SHOCKED BY DULLES' WORDS...
...result, Columbia has awarded master's degrees to an impressive roster of the successful in journalism, at last nose count had produced 64 publishers, 67 editors in chief, 36 Washington correspondents, and 66 Timesmen. Says Columbia's Dean Edward W. Barrett, class of '33: "If anybody asks me if he must go to journalism school, I'd say no. It's not necessary like law or medicine. But for the average person going into journalism, the training allows him to advance five, six or even ten years faster...
...news gap by extended coverage, the best job was done by a radio station tied to a good newspaper-the New York Times's WQXR. Department editors went on the air to read stories; other staffers chatted conversationally among themselves on topics of the hour. Taped interviews with Timesmen overseas gave listeners a Timeslike ration of international affairs. Every day Theodore M. Bernstein, the Times's able, shirt-sleeved assistant managing editor, patiently and expertly filled for his audience, column by column, an imaginary Times Page One-and emerged as a radio personality in his own right...
Pros & Amateurs. New Yorkers were fed a low-calorie diet of daily news from strange and familiar sources. The city's radio and television stations stepped up coverage, read excerpts from the columnists. On Sunday the Times and NBC sponsored an hourlong, live-television news show that carried Timesmen's reports from New York, Washington and Europe. The Spanish-language El Diario began running two pages of news in English, doubled its press run to 140,000, had to turn away advertising. The National Enquirer, weekly sex-and-gossip sheet, put out an extra issue with some news...