Word: interviewing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Checking out of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center after a lung-cancer operation (TIME, May n), TV-Radio Entertainer Arthur Godfrey, 55, met the press in the most harrowing interview of his life. Pale and shaky, he first tried to carry it off bravely: "Just like I told you when I came in, I feel fine." Though he soon gave way to tears, he still managed to keep his old red head in describing his bout with the malignant growth in his chest. "That damnable" tumor had even adhered to the aorta, great artery from the heart. Sobbing...
After a four-hour conference with the Dalai Lama, Nehru emerged from Birla House and, faced by a battery of cameras and microphones, gave reporters a two-minute interview. It had been, said Nehru, "a very full talk, I hope a helpful talk." Then he offered an unintentional assist to the Red propagandists by conceding that, while in Lhasa, the Dalai Lama had indeed written "friendly" letters to the Red commandant because he 1) was passing through difficult and troubled times, and 2) was trying to avoid open conflict with Peking...
...recent interview, varsity lacrosse coach Bruce Munro noted that "this year we are building the foundation for the future of Harvard lacrosse. Varsity players are almost unanimous in their belief that the amount of spirit this team has radiated has been more significant than results of individual games...
...Also aboard the train, also bound for Green Pond was TIME Washington Correspondent Harold B. Meyers. Soon after the train pulled out of Washington's Union Station, Meyers handed a porter a note for the Herters, a few moments later was welcomed into their room for an informal interview ("I had known you were aboard," said Herter later, "and I must confess I was quite put out about it"). While Meyers was having his chat with the soon-to-be-appointed Secretary of State, other TIME staffers were digging into Herter's life story elsewhere, and summing...
...stay in--a fact which is reflected in the amount of space devoted to admissions and financial aids in University Hall. What the applicant sees is rather unimposing; a secretary announces that Mr.------ is ready, he enters (with wise instructions to "have some intelligent questions ready for the interviewer"), and he is ushered into a small room where the interviewer may have ashtrays and paperwork scattered about his desk and crayon drawings by his daughter on the wall. They talk about hockey, or Hemingway, or Baroque, and everyone is relieved when the interview is over...