Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In the Examiner's shadow, the Chronicle moseyed along as an earnest but unexciting paper so out-of-touch with local currents that it once sent its science editor to Outer Mongolia for a story about a "dawn redwood." But in 1952 Charles de Young Thieriot, a descendant of...
One of Newhall's most telling moves was to overload the Chronicle-which has only 41 cityside reporters-with 40 columnists, writing about everything from jazz (Ralph Gleason) to how to shuck out of a brassiére (Count Marco). News often gave way to such oddball features as...
Of the two dozen newsmen regularly covering the Congo, none has given his competitors more trouble than affable Wilfred Lazarus, 35, correspondent for the Press Trust of India. In a land where rumors flock like jungle fowl, communications are primitive and authorities both unreliable and distressingly perishable, Willie Lazarus regularly...
A veteran of 15 years with P.T.I., Lazarus scored his first big Congo scoop when he reported that Congolese troops were threatening to attack the residence of India's Rajeshwar Dayal, who is U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's personal representative in the Congo. Spotting the story in...
Last week the unabashed Lazarus turned up another bit of sensational news: from U.N. sources, he reported, he had learned that the troops guarding deposed Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba not only roughed Lumumba up (see FOREIGN NEWS) but had also chewed off one of his fingers. With a nice feeling...