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Despite the glamorized buildup to her job (a favorite newspaper comparison: Anna and the King of Siam), Mrs. Vining sees Akihito in private only one hour a week. A Japanese, Professor Hiroshi Kikuchi, gives the Prince most of his English lessons, which take seven of his 27 schoolroom hours (the Prince spends only four hours a week on Japanese...
This Waldorf-Astoria lunch was a portent of the big-time buildup to come, a publicity campaign sketched out by high-priced public-relations expert Edward L. Bernays. But part of the publicity that followed wasn't in the Bernays blueprint. To reporters. Wallace pooh-poohed Senator Vandenberg's conversion to internationalism, credited it to young (37), able James Reston, national reporter of the New York Times. Next day Reston wrote a letter to the editor of the Times. Said...
That was quite a buildup you gave Mr. Jackson in reference to his latest book, The Fall of Valor (TIME, Oct. 7). Shame...
Cissie gave Bootsie a shrewd buildup, decorated the column each week with cuts of Bootsie in a different hat. As madly hatted as Hedda Hopper, Mrs. Cassini has a collection of 50, mostly John-Frederics jobs, sometimes makes her own from pieces of curtain or lace tablecloths...
...York's tabloid Daily News splashed it on Page One: TRUMAN ASKS 4 JUSTICES TO QUIT. In Washington, Cissie Patterson's sister paper, the Times-Herald, gave it a black bannerline buildup. It was one of the biggest news stories of the year-if true. Never in U.S. history had a President told Supreme Court justices to get out. The story even named the four justices: Black, Jackson, Frankfurter and Murphy. To devoted News and Times-Herald readers, it looked like the straight dope. To newsmen, it did not: the "scoop" was signed by poison-penman Columnist John...