Word: timesman
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...faith. At the same time, an anti-Catholic vote may well have been decisive against Kennedy in such states as Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Oregon. But in many Protestant areas-both North and South-Kennedy's Catholicism seems not to have worked against him. Kennedy, as New York Timesman James Reston aptly put it, "appealed to the loyalty of the Catholics and the conscience of the Protestants...
What to Do? In a reply to Timesman Canaday last week, Tastemaker Barr tried to explain that his "rather garbled remark" had been "eagerly misinterpreted as an obituary. It was not. American abstract expressionism, in its robust middle age, is going strong"-despite "the hostile attitude of the head critics of the leading New York newspapers." But what caused Barr real pain was his unwanted reputation as the most powerful taste-maker in America. "I am more than embarrassed," he wrote, "I am dismayed. Any influence I may have is largely dependent upon the institution where I work...
...true Manhattan snob boasts that he never goes to the pier-fringed West Side except when sailing to Europe. In that spirit, Actress Tallulah Bankhead last week lamented to a New York Timesman that she will soon be forced to journey west to begin rehearsals for her first Broadway appearance since 1957, the title role in Midgie Purvis, a new farce by Mary Chase. Said Tallulah in her Far East town house: "I never leave the East Side. I haven't been to a nightclub in ten years, and the theater bores me-and besides, I haven...
...nine weeks of intermittent babysitting in Manhattan, Grandpa Harry Truman and Grandma Bess were sad and glad to be relieved of their duties. They hustled little Clifton Daniel, 3, and his brother William, I, down to a pier where the boys' parents, Margaret Truman Daniel and New York Timesman Clifton Daniel Jr., disembarked from the liner United States after a European tour...
...wrote New York Timesman Harrison Salisbury last month in a two-part story on race tensions in Birmingham, Ala. As might be expected, Salisbury's molten prose brought an immediate outcry from Birmingham...