Word: wire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Other Details . . ." International News Service's Robert G. Nixon was the first to flag his office. But I.N.S., working on a telephone tip, had already put out a bulletin at 2:24 p.m. and scored the kind of beat over its wire-service rivals that press-association men love to boast about. Text of the bulletin: "Police reported that one of their officers has been shot in front of the Blair House, official residence of President Truman. No other details were immediately available...
...senior wire-service correspondent at the White House, United Pressman Merriman Smith, 37, has enjoyed the affection of President Truman, the esteem of his colleagues and a time-honored privilege: he closes the presidential press conferences with his "Thank you, Mr. President." But at last week's conference (which Smith skipped), the President had no thanks for Mr. Smith. Harry Truman, notably in a touchy mood (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), tartly remarked that one news service at least had been something less than objective in its coverage of the Truman-MacArthur meeting on Wake Island. What galled the President...
...scored on the Wake meeting by breaking an agreement with his peers. At Wake, the correspondents had to share a single radio teletypewriter to Honolulu. As a result, they agreed to pool the first communiqué from the conference and send it as a joint dispatch to the three wire services, United Press, Associated Press and International News Service. When the communiqué-the only real news in the meeting-was issued, it was sent down to the radio shack for transmission. Before it could be sent, Smith took his own copy of the communiqué, rip-roodled...
...Honolulu, on the way back, the New York Times's Tony Leviero sent a story forecasting a "knockout blow" in Korea (last week's paratroop landing above Pyongyang). Leviero's dispatch was garbled in transmission, so the Times wired back to check some of the facts. Leviero never got the original query, and was burned up when Smith got a play in the afternoon Honolulu papers with a "knockout blow" story of his own plus a Page One spread next morning in the New York Herald Tribune, Leviero's opposition. Leviero cabled his boss, Washington Bureau...
...countless negotiating tables, earned himself a reputation for homespun, amiable integrity, helped solve many a minor strike, some major ones. Both management & labor trusted him. Forty-six years ago, working as an equipment supervisor on Boston's Elevated Railway Co., he once almost electrocuted himself repairing an overhead wire, blowing out every fuse in the system. He came to a week later, badly burned and partially blind, lay in bed for 15 weeks. Nobody from the company ever came to see him; accident compensation didn't exist. Ching thought about that. He took a law degree, went back...