Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In his new job, Salinger will have some advantages over Jim Hagerty-as well as some disadvantages. Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps out of old Army habit, generally held himself coolly aloof from the White House press; Jack Kennedy, whose first job was as a reporter for the old International News Service...
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Salinger plans a major innovation in presidential press conferences: where Hagerty for the first time permitted filmed-and lightly edited-television versions of presidential news conferences, Salinger plans to authorize live TV conferences. "This would give the whole nation a chance to see the President as he actually answers the...
*He is no kin to J. D. Salinger, 41, talented chronicler of the prodigious young (The Catcher in the Rye).
Of England's weekly journals of opinion, the New Statesman is beyond much doubt the best written, best edited, most successful-and most maddening. It is read round the world, has particular standing among Asian intellectuals, including India's Prime Minister Nehru, who is apt to agonize over...