Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rumor of the week in Washington: Hoffa and Star Trial Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams (other clients: Frank Costello, Bernard Goldfine and Adam Clayton Powell) will soon part company...
Written Denial. Last week, his investigation exposed as a sad and cynical farce, Bender was threatening to sue any publication that reprinted Washington Post and Times Herald Cartoonist Herblock's devastating version of the Bender investigation (see cut). But when a newsman asked to see some of the evidence that Bender claimed to have in his files, Bender could produce nothing more convincing than a letter he had sent to Charles C. Curran, secretary-treasurer of a bakery drivers' (Teamsters) local in Tacoma, Wash. "We would like to know," said Bender's letter, "if there have been...
...Rochester (A.B. '41, Phi Beta Kappa), took his Master's in 1943. After that he joined the parade of topnotch atomic physicists at the University of California's famed Radiation Laboratory, later became associate director. In March he moved his wife and three children to Washington and took on his ARPA job, turned out to be that rare combination of thoroughgoing professional and easygoing, low-pressure executive. Once a sports-jacket type, York has changed to conventional suits, but his wife still has to sew identifying labels into his clothing, for he is color blind...
This year, the University of Missouri School of Journalism-the oldest, biggest and most celebrated undergraduate J-school in the nation - is marking its 50th anniversary of helping good smart kids. Missouri has turned out some 6,500 graduates, including U.P.I. Vice President and Washington Manager Lyle Wilson, Publisher Jack Flynn of the New York Daily News, and the late sportswriter Bill Corum of the Hearst papers...
...Wisconsin. Minnesota, argue that the liberal arts major is more suited to the long haul of newspapering than the J-school man: his background is broader, better preparing him to cope with assignments from atomics to Zionism. Instead of taking journalism courses, says Managing Editor Al Friendly of the Washington Post and Times Herald, "a boy would be better off reading Carlyle or studying the pigmentation of butterfly wings...