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...headquarters of two Liberal newspapers, one of them El Tiempo (circ. 180,000), Latin America's most distinguished newspaper since the destruction of Buenos Aires' La Prensa. The attackers destroyed the newspaper's advertising and circulation records, wrecked its oak-paneled editorial offices and gutted its pressroom...
...West, switchboard operators and Western Union men urgently summoned the President's staff, his airplane crew and the press. Reporters came running in off the beaches in wet swimming trunks, and dashed into the pressroom. Then came the announcement: Harry Truman had suddenly decided to cut short his vacation, and would fly back to Washington a week ahead of schedule "for a meeting ... of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and representatives of the State Department." The reporters immediately began to clamor: What's wrong? A crisis...
White House correspondents, watching a pressroom TV set while the New York Giants battled the Brooklyn Dodgers, got a special summons to the office of Presidential Press Secretary Joe Short. Short looked gravely through his spectacles, and began reading from a paper before him. "Another atomic bomb has recently been exploded within the Soviet Union," he read. "This event confirms again that the Soviet Union is continuing to make atomic weapons . . . Further details cannot be given without adversely affecting our national security interests...
...answer to an unusual mid-morning summons, 17 reporters trotted upstairs from the Pentagon pressroom to the Secretary of Defense's third-floor office. They found George Catlett Marshall, trim in a blue-grey double-breasted suit and dark tie, smiling genially. He waved them to seats, crossed one leg over the other, and he broke his well-kept secret: "My resignation as Secretary of Defense takes effect...
...lacks old W.R.'s iron will and steel-trap mind. But of all the sons, Bill has worked hardest at earning his newspaper spurs. While attending a small military academy in San Rafael, Calif., he spent his vacations working as a "flyboy" in the New York Mirror pressroom, after two years at University of California left school to work as a police-station cub for the old New York American. At 23, he was boosted up to be president, and stayed on the job with the merged Journal-American...