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Word: vaccaro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporters hit the foyer at a dead run, tore through the lobby, and smashed the nose of a stuffed deer on their dash to pressroom telephones. "Bulletin! Bulletin!" shouted Tony Vaccaro of the Associated Press. Said Smith to the U.P.: "Flash!" Bob Nixon yelped at the International News Service switchboard: "Flash, goddammit, gimme the desk!" At 11:05, bells on U.P. and I.N.S. tickers in hundreds of newspapers signaled the big news flash. Three minutes later, the A.P.'s bulletin was on the wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Little Something | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Tony Vaccaro, Associated Press correspondent, was looking forward to his trip to Rio next month with President Truman. But he did not want to take a yellow-fever shot, just the same. He had been told that shots were optional. Now, as he was shoved into the White House clinic, he cried, "I don't believe in shots!" A White House physician stared at him coldly. Vaccaro was told that the President had changed the rules; all reporters had to be immunized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: This Won't Hurt a Bit | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

With reluctant resignation, Vaccaro obeyed instructions. He lowered his pants to half mast, climbed dismally up on an operating table, lay down with his head turned to the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: This Won't Hurt a Bit | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...door opened and President Harry Truman slipped in, beaming. He was handed a veterinarian's hypodermic syringe-a horrible weapon with a needle as thick as a pencil and huge glass cylinder full of a gummy looking red fluid. He prodded the recumbent reporter. Vaccaro winced and the President said, "This won't hurt a bit, Tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: This Won't Hurt a Bit | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...familiar voice, Vaccaro rolled over, saw Harry Truman grinning from ear to ear. He stared at the awful needle, suddenly realized he was the victim of a practical joke. Then he sighed with relief and got off the quote of the week: "Mr. President, I do not usually greet Presidents of the United States from this position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: This Won't Hurt a Bit | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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