Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When news breaks, Reporter Pressman roars to the scene in the station's Ford Thunderbird or Chevrolet station wagon, both of which are equipped with telephone and recording equipment. "These give reporting a new dimension," says Pressman. "Local news broadcasting has suffered too long from slavish dependence on wire services. It has its own tremendous advantage of personalization and immediacy...
...have already scheduled twelve more for next fall-the biggest visible trend for the new season-and independents are hopefully breaking in 50 other contenders. Among the forthcoming shows: CBS's Have Gun, Will Travel, ABC's The Texan, The Californians, Oklahoma Kid, NBC's The Wagon Train, Pony Express. ABC's half-hour Lije and Legend of Wyatt Earp (8:30 p.m.) is at the center of a solid two-hour Western bloc that enables the network to dominate Tuesday evening viewing...
...himself was winging southward to join Art and George at Thomasville. Stepping out of his plane into balmy weather ("My," commented Mamie Eisenhower, "this sun feels good"), Ike drove to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's 600-acre plantation, "Milestone." Next day he climbed into a mule-drawn hunting wagon and to the soothing clop-clop-clop of two white mules, drove to the dry brush where the quail were hiding. And there, within the hour, the President almost forgot the tensions of the world outside...
...coincidence a paddy-wagon mate on the ride to Federal Detention Headquarters was Ukrainian-born Irving Potash, 55, one of the eleven top Reds convicted under the Smith Act in 1949 of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government. Deported by his own choice last year after serving 41 months of a five-year sentence, Potash mysteriously re-entered the U.S. (he refused to say how). Arrested in January, he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for illegal entry...
...PACKARD CLIPPER, out this week in two body styles, will have supercharged 275-h.p. Studebaker engine and automatic transmission as standard equipment. First Packard station wagon since 1950 is listed at $3,093, and four-door sedan...