
{"id":26968,"date":"2012-07-12T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=26968"},"modified":"2012-07-12T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:30:11","slug":"val-lauder-and-ike-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/07\/12\/val-lauder-and-ike-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Lauder and Ike, 1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/07\/12\/val-lauder-and-ike-1947\/1kwords071212\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26971\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1kWords071212.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1kWords071212\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1kWords071212.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1kWords071212-113x75.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1kWords071212-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1kWords071212-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1kWords071212-360x239.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting to meet and interview the luminaries of our times is one of the perks of being a journalist. Val Lauder should know; during her long tenure at the Chicago Daily News, the retired UNC journalism professor interviewed the likes of Frank Sinatra and General Dwight Eisenhower (seen here during a 1947 event). It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all recorded in a new book, The Back Page, released this summer by Amazon.com. Val describes the book as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153my experiences \u00e2\u20ac\u201c adventures \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0at a great\u00c2\u00a0American newspaper. This is not an academic kind of account of journalism at an earlier time. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of humor in the pages, smiles, chuckles, laughter.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She describes the book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s genesis: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A couple of summers ago I was not scheduled to teach Summer School, and the idea sort of \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 came to me of writing about my experiences at the Chicago Daily News, the historical\u00c2\u00a0figures I met, and the celebrities \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 [during] a century of great events. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I was aware as I wrote that I was sharing with readers another time.\u00c2\u00a0We had typewriters.\u00c2\u00a0Telephones &#8230; some of them the old-fashioned, upright telephones sometimes called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccandlestick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 telephones.\u00c2\u00a0Glue pots on the desks. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It was only when Tom Bowers [retired UNC J-School senior associate dean] read the manuscript and emailed me about it \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that I realized I had documented a time that has been lost, that the people who [now] work in cubicles with computers and carry cell phones \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 have no awareness of that time or how we reacted to breaking news stories.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As Steve Reiss, enterprise editor of The Washington Post, put it in his comment on the back of the book: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And best of all, it captures why anyone would work in these dirty, loud rooms with a deadline always hanging over your head: because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much damn fun.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The book is available at Amazon.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting to meet and interview the luminaries of our times is one of the perks of being a journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26975,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968\/revisions\/26975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}