Word: timesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the long shutdown, the 400 or so Times journalists reported to the office twice a week, covered their beats as best they could and worked on long-term stories. Some two dozen Timesmen busied themselves writing books, others freelanced for magazines, but none completely escaped the ennui that afflicts a newspaperman suddenly without a newspaper. "I feel like a frog in the winter," Times Foreign Editor Charles Douglas-Home said at one point. "All horizons have contracted. Things continue to function, but at a tiny percent of efficiency...
Sulzberger also pensioned off whole lumberyards of executive deadwood on the paper's 14th-floor management corridor and hired younger men. Then he spirited his biz kids off to secluded conference centers for endless sessions devoted to planning, budgeting, lectures from management experts and other exercises that Timesmen had never endured before "The editors would say, 'How can we have a budget when we never know what the news is going to be tomorrow...
...first unable to swallow the revised pledge, the New York Times briefly attempted to negotiate a third version. But once the Indian government turned thumbs down, the two Timesmen. on the scene, New Delhi Correspondent William Borders and Eric Pace of the Tehran Bureau, both gave in to the Indian censors. Explained Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "In our opinion, it amounts simply to an acknowledgement of receipt of a written government document and a statement by the correspondent that he will be responsible for whatever he writes." Newsweek magazine too, had refused to accept the original pledge...
Shortly after Hersh's CIA story, White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen called Clifton Daniel, the Times Washington bureau chief, and told him that invitations were being sent for an "informal" lunch with the President. On Jan. 16, seven top Timesmen were ushered into a small dining room in the East Wing for lamb chops with Ford, Nessen, Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan and Special Consultant Robert Goldwin. The gathering was cordial, though Ford occasionally interjected "Now this is off the record" and "This is not for public." Talk eventually turned to the Rockefeller commission...
...reporting and broadened coverage of the underprivileged. A handsome bachelor-about-town since his divorce from Alice Patterson Albright, whose family of Medills and Pattersons made newspaper history with their Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and the late Washington Times-Herald, the politically liberal Hoge has seen Sun-Timesmen collect four Pulitzer Prizes, while the paper's circulation rose by more than 40,000 under his editorship...