Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern newspaper reporter," says a Chicago wire-service veteran, "walks with a stoop-the TV hunch. Any time he straightens up, some TV man screams at him to get out of the picture." John Drieske, the Chicago Sun-Times political expert, was once asked by a TV man to move from his front-row seat at a news conference. Drieske was wearing a white shirt, the man explained, and a colored one would look better. Even when the reporters get their own conference, they can feel the TV sting. After Stevenson's Minnesota defeat, reporters squeezed into corner waiting...
Blind Spot. How do reporters strike back? In Manhattan, one enterprising newsman carries a child's metal "cricket" toy; it fits snugly into a pocket and emits loud rhythmic pops that drive sound technicians to desperation. In Chicago, a veteran journalist sprinkles his news conference questions with profanity ("Damn it, Senator, what the hell are we gonna do about the farm surplus?"). Another complies willingly when asked to pose for a reporter-at-work shot, then scrawls large obscenities into his notebook under the camera. In Los Angeles, ingenious still photographers-who are on the reporters' side-have...
Backyard Hoop. A veteran of professional baseball and basketball, Father Sime has always felt a drive to teach his son his own driving urge to excel in sports. As soon as young Dave could handle a basketball there was a backyard hoop. "When I was five," he recalls, "Dad had me out hitting baseballs. Dad always told me to run faster, throw harder, hit farther. He never has been completely satisfied...
Died. Jed Prouty, 77, veteran (since 1894) actor of stage (Something for the Boys), screen (Daddy Jones in "The Jones Family" series), and radio (father to The Aldrich Family); in Manhattan...
...soon the Rockefeller group decided that Piasecki's genius lay in design, not administration, and Piasecki was moved upstairs to board chairman, while Production Expert Hart Miller was made president. At the beginning of 1953 the Rockefeller group made another change: it brought in veteran aircraft engineer-executive Don R. Berlin, 57, as president, gave him a mandate to cut costs and payrolls. Berlin lifted so many scalps that his first months were called "the Berlin Hairlift...