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...some of his own notes on Iacocca from 1978. "When I first saw him at the Ford annual meeting, he was keeping a low profile," Witteman recalls. "The next time we crossed paths was in November 1978, as he was emerging from behind a curtain into the threadbare Chrysler pressroom with a big cigar in his hand. He was about to be introduced as the company's newest employee...
Tommy's domain at Winter Haven is the kitchen in the clubhouse, just off the pressroom. His title is press steward. He recalls in loving detail when the Red Sox train, with reporters and maybe 40 Old Boys aboard, would leave Boston's Back Bay Station in the years after World War II. Tommy was not allowed to serve drinks in the station. But once the train started rolling, at 8 a.m. sharp, Tommy started pouring. It was a happy crowd that stepped off into the Florida sunshine at 3 o'clock the following afternoon. Spring training...
...which a million Chinese died to preserve a human interest story about a rooster. Yet the play still works as media criticism and, even more, as a psychological portrait of newspapermen: brawling boys in love with spectacle and hubbub, literally snapping towels at each other in a courthouse pressroom flanked by lockers...
...pray for Jean Harris every night. I know all about men. I know what they did to me. They went out with my girlfriends." And so there were television crews catching catnaps in the corner, and authors calling their agents from the makeshift phones in the lobby-cum-pressroom. After more than 47 hours of deliberation, a final secret ballot was taken. A unanimous verdict was reached. A note was passed to Judge Russell Leggett, and he reconvened the court...
...year ago. Deputy Chief of Correspondents Rudolph Rauch assembled a group to arrange the complex logistics that convention coverage demands. The swift movement of staffers, information and film required the hiring of 22 messengers and a fleet of 21 cars, as well as the installation in TIME'S pressroom in Cobo Hall of 50 telephones, two telex machines and a link to our computer in Manhattan. Other newsroom amenities: 24 desks, 38 typewriters, six pairs of binoculars and-for the fortunate-a pair of sofas...