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 I, 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 Pins Xl 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".