Dafter interviewing become common practice
62. ______ in the United States, American
journalists were teaching Europeans what their own elites would
63. ______ submit to interviews. In 1879, an
American named James Creelman became a first person to interview
64. ______ the president of France. During World War
1, American correspondents helped transforming the
65. ______ standing of the interview in Britain. One of
them recalled, "You saw the immemorial aloofness of the King of England
wiping out at a tea party for 66.
______ American journalists at Sandringham; you beheld the holy of holy of
the British War Office as the setting 67. ______ of a weekly
conference with reporters." The World scored with the pope
(Benedict XV) again in 1915. Interviewing the pope seems to have been the
next best thing to interview God for 68.
______ American journalists, and they kept in citing papal
69. ______ interviews as earth shattering achievement, The
70. ______ United Press correspondent who
interviewed Pope Pius XI in 1929 was far from the first to do so, but the
UP boasted that he was at less the first to do so 71.
______ "in the private library of the Pontiff".