Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elated by last week's general ruling, Hill made plans to press on through the courts for an injunction against WPAZ. "This is a boon to every newspaperman who has had his stuff swiped," he said. "This lifting of stories was just like getting my pocket picked." Some other Pennsylvania editors agreed, including those pestered by opposition papers who do not bother to do any reporting on their own. For the Supreme Court made it clear that its ruling was a warning to newspapers as well as broadcasters...
Soon after, as the story was pieced together last week, Schoeters was drawn to the cause of French Canadian separatism. Most of the separatists he met disagreed with his thesis that revolutions always bring solutions. But he did find a few like-minded souls-an unemployed newspaperman, a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. messenger, the son of a prominent Quebec attorney, a draftsman and a proofreader. Early this year several of them founded the FLQ and decided that something dramatic was necessary to win Quebec's masses to the separatist cause...
...peaceful desegregation of Georgia's public schools during the past two years suggests that such achievements are possible in a supposedly hopeless situation if the people are given rational alternatives, according to a newspaperman who observed the Georgia accomplishment...
...wind. At Palm Beach, White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger called a special press briefing for 5:30 p.m. A television reporter asked if it would be worth having a TV line stand by, at a cost of $1,200. Indeed it would, assured Salinger. Another newspaperman cornered Senator Ted Kennedy on a Palm Beach tennis court, asked if the big news might be confirmation of the report that the President would go to Ireland this summer. "No," said Teddy, grinning slyly. "It's sexier than that...
Finally the massive bureau file-broken into 14 takes-moves over the wires to Manhattan. It is long and thorough, full of thousands of facts from dozens of interviews, but it is not a story as a newspaperman would send it. We call it research, though it is not as deadening as that word suggests: if careful in its facts, it is casual and carefree in the telling. The Chicago bureau is anxious not only to report the facts but to suggest a tone and mood...