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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...your story on the press coverage of the Nixon campaign, you [report] Philip Potter of the Baltimore Sun as saying I called his publisher to complain about a press-conference question posed by him. This is one of the factual inaccuracies in the story. No such protest was made. To give another example, I noted the story depicts the traveling newsmen as paying little attention to the Vice President when he dropped in on a press reception at Billings. I believe the newsmen I know are more alert than this, and the fact is they crowded around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1960 | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

...planes; the four pool reporters admitted to the Nixon plane on rotation are carefully partitioned from the candidate, who keeps almost entirely to his quarters in the rear. "Nixon's people seem to feel the reporters are a conspiratorial group," says the Baltimore Sun's Phil Potter. Nixon's press secretary, Herbert G. Klein, denying that there is any real hostility, admits that "you don't talk to the press people without some regard to what you say," and some members of Nixon's staff think hostile reporters go over every line of Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Climate: Chilly | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...Kennedy, according to one informal straw vote aboard the Nixon press plane. But most reporters insist they know how to separate their own convictions from their reporting, and say that Nixon's assistants are too ready to find real or imagined injury. In Springfield, Mo., after Reporter Potter asked what Klein considered a deliberately needling question, Klein sent an angry protest to Potter's publisher. Klein was also disturbed by a magazine article over the wardrobes of the candidates' wives: he thought the caption, "Pat v. Jackie," should have read "Jackie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Climate: Chilly | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...Show (CBS) leads a relentless parade of situation comedies, all designed to show that American family life is as cute as a freckle on a five-year-old. The show, which might also be titled Father Knows Nothing, presents the comic with the excavated face as a bumbler named Potter who is trapped in the customary format: Harassed Man Beaten Down by Wife, Three Daughters, Mother-in-Law. In the opening episode, Ewell could find no better way to outsmart his spendthrift women than closing his bank account and ruining his own credit. For those who may have tuned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The New Shows | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

...which they exchange their white robes for ordinary clothes. Two brothers are psychologists and two are physicians, one of them to Taizé and the nearby farmers. Four operate a successful printing press. One brother runs a dairy and a model farm, another is a sculptor, another a potter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Brothers of Taize | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

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