Word: trainings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort, but by the time Charlie Ross got it explained, precious time had gone by-and the reporters were scrambling to cover the Clarksburg, W.Va. speech. Without warning to the pressmen, the President had stepped off the rear platform to say his piece, and the loudspeakers in the train had not caught a word. To make matters worse, the press services could not get stories of the speech off the train for 45 minutes...
News on the Run. There were few such snafus aboard the campaign specials that roamed the U.S. last week. But even without them, the specials were no gravy trains to the working press. Though both the Dewey and Truman trains carried loudspeakers, the reporters had to hop off for platform speeches if they wanted to size up crowds. And they heard so many speeches that they began to sound like broken records. Stories were written in a hurry, lest they miss the telegraph operator at the station stop. At some points, Western Union stationed runners along the track, to catch...
...badly run. Texts of the nightly speeches were handed out at the last minute. Moreover, in spite of all the rushing, the news was so thin that some of the 41 newsmen aboard had been told by their offices to keep it brief. The total daily file off the train was down to 75,000 words, only half the "copy drop" from Tom Dewey's train. Between stops, the reporters never visited Mr. Truman in his armored car, the Ferdinand Magellan. He had not wandered up their way since an earlier trip, when a LIFE photographer had snapped...
Sometimes reporters could not even pass the time drinking, thanks to Hearst's smart-aleck Columnist George Dixon. He had printed a giggly prediction that the Truman train would ignore local liquor laws. After that, for several dreadful days, the bar had been locked up in dry states...
Citation ran like a railroad train. When Jockey Eddie Arcaro pushed the throttle, Citation, who runs with great economy, came whistling down the stretch, using just enough steam to stay two lengths ahead of his nearest rival, Phalanx, and pick up $75,600. It put him just behind Stymie ($911,335), the biggest money-winning horse of all time. Citation's total...