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...BROKE NO AGREEMENT WITH MY COLLEAGUES AT WAKE. WE AGREED TO FILE A POOLED DISPATCH. THIS WAS WRITTEN JOINTLY BY THE A.P/S TONY VACCARO, BOB NIXON OF THE I.N.S., AND MYSELF. IT WAS ADDRESSED TO THE A.P., U.P. AND I.N.S. I DID NOT FILE ONE WORD OF INDEPENDENT COPY FROM WAKE...
...reporters hit the foyer at a dead run, tore through the lobby, and smashed the nose of a stuffed deer on their dash to pressroom telephones. "Bulletin! Bulletin!" shouted Tony Vaccaro of the Associated Press. Said Smith to the U.P.: "Flash!" Bob Nixon yelped at the International News Service switchboard: "Flash, goddammit, gimme the desk!" At 11:05, bells on U.P. and I.N.S. tickers in hundreds of newspapers signaled the big news flash. Three minutes later, the A.P.'s bulletin was on the wire...
With reluctant resignation, Vaccaro obeyed instructions. He lowered his pants to half mast, climbed dismally up on an operating table, lay down with his head turned to the wall...
...door opened and President Harry Truman slipped in, beaming. He was handed a veterinarian's hypodermic syringe-a horrible weapon with a needle as thick as a pencil and huge glass cylinder full of a gummy looking red fluid. He prodded the recumbent reporter. Vaccaro winced and the President said, "This won't hurt a bit, Tony...
...familiar voice, Vaccaro rolled over, saw Harry Truman grinning from ear to ear. He stared at the awful needle, suddenly realized he was the victim of a practical joke. Then he sighed with relief and got off the quote of the week: "Mr. President, I do not usually greet Presidents of the United States from this position...