Word: pressroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duchy of Grand Fenwick graciously declares that a state of war exists between Grand Fenwick and the United States of America. When the declaration is delivered to the U.S. Department of State, the only reaction it gets is a tired snicker from a bored bureaucrat: "Those guys in the pressroom. All the time making jokes." After all, Grand Fenwick is the smallest independent country in the world, a few square miles left over from the Middle
...plastered ads in taxis and in rest rooms of Mayfair restaurants. A four-page tabloid called the Daily Racket (after the paper in the play) sprouted on London newsstands, loaded with barbs aimed at Fleet Streeters. Rebuffed in efforts to hold an opening-night party in a Fleet Street pressroom, he hired the Cock Tavern, a newsmen's hangout, decorated it with signs, copies of the Racket, copy boys, celebrities and drink. (The bottle count: 64 whisky, 55 wine, 46 gin, twelve brandy, 240 beer...
...Chicago Sun-Times, when a pressroom foreman decides to clean the ink fountains, he must put eight or ten men on the job instead of the three actually needed...
...Every pressroom has him-the unobtrusive character who is not a professional newsman but who is always around, his duties uncertain, his status undetermined, tolerated and even liked by the pros. But few can boast a more memorable character than Vo Song Thiet, a tiny, bespectacled Vietnamese who bicycled into Geneva in 1954 and has been a fixture of the Palais des Nations' pressroom ever since...
...partition plan went through, but Vo fought on-in his own odd way. Every July, in sorrowful memory of the month when partition took place, he fasted for a week. This July, Vo vanished from his pressroom corner; newsmen remembered that he had talked of going on an "indefinite" hunger strike. He did. Last week, his weight down to 90 Ibs., staying alive only with occasional pinches of salt, bowls of rice broth and fruit juice, Vo totted up his recent appeals to world figures, including U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Nikita Khrushchev, President Eisenhower, Vietnamese Communist Boss...