While Patton had many detractors in the press, he also received praise from others, including a tribute from a UPI writer who wrote, " Gen. George S. Patton believed he was the greatest soldier who ever lived.

White House reporter Helen Thomas became the public face of UPI, as she was seen at televised press conferences beginning in the early 1960s.

UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith was an eyewitness, and he commandeered the press car's only phone to dictate the story to UPI as AP reporter Jack Bell tried — without success — to wrest the phone away so he could call his office.

In 2007 as part of a restructuring to keep UPI in business and profitable, management cut 11 staff from its Washington D. C. office and no longer has a reporter in the White House press corps or a bureau covering the United Nations.

On Friday, November 20, United Press International's ( UPI ) wire service reported that book values for used Edsels had declined by as much as $ 400 ( approximately $ 2, 800 in 2006 values ) based on condition and age immediately following the Ford press release.

" It was during Kennedy's administration that she began ending presidential press conferences with a signature " Thank you, Mr. President ," reviving a tradition started by UPI ’ s Merriman Smith during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt.

A dramatic snapshot by Johnny Jenkins ( UPI ) showed the young girl being followed and threatened by an angry white mob ; this and other photos of the day's startling events were circulated around the US and the world by the print press.

The next day, after attending the military press conference, UPI correspondent sent out the following dispatch: SAIGON ( UPI )-The deputy commander of South Vietnamese troops defending the Saigon area was found shot to death Tuesday night following an argument with his superior over tactics.

He began work as a press photographer in Laos stringing for UPI and AFP, having taught himself photography.

Carr even became a voice of caution in Ginsberg ’ s life, warning him to “ keep the hustlers and parasites at arm ’ s length .” For many years, Ginsberg would visit the UPI offices and press Carr to cover the various causes with which Ginsberg had allied himself.

The event was reported around the world with numerous American newspapers picking up the story from the UPI press agency.

Michelle Robidoux, a spokeswoman with the War Resisters Support Campaign, said the appellate ruling is important for other war resisters in Canada as well .< ref > UPI.

Its decline accelerated after the 1982 sale of UPI by the Scripps company.

In 2000, UPI was purchased by News World Communications, an international news media company which was founded in 1976 by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon.

But the UP-INS merger involved another business component that was to hurt the new UPI company badly in later years.

So they deliberately kept their respective syndicates out of the combined UPI company.

Scripps ' heirs, the Scripps company, which had been underwriting UPI's expenses at a loss for at least two decades, began trying transfer control of UPI in the early 1980s.

In 1988, Vázquez Raña sold UPI to Infotechnology Inc. an information technology and venture capital company and parent company of cable TV's Financial News Network, both headed by Earl Brian, who also became UPI chairman.

The following year, de Borchgrave played a key role in the sale of the further downsized UPI to News World Communications, the international news media company founded in 1976 by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon, who was also the founder of The Washington Times for which de Borchgrave had worked earlier.

As of 1983, he was a Director of the Factory of Tin Containers under holding company " UPI " Sarajevo, where he worked until 1992.

On November 12, 2008, Dentsu announced that it was selling 80. 1 % of its ownership in the company to NBC Universal's Universal Pictures International Entertainment ( UPI ), which plans to merge the company with its Universal Pictures Japan division to form a new company.

* Dan Olmsted – an investigative reporter and former senior editor for United Press International ( UPI ), a news agency of the Unification Church company News World Communications.

Dean would win UPI NFC Defensive Player of the Year ( while playing in only 11 games ) that same year en route to a Super Bowl victory and help the 49ers to another Super Bowl title two years later.

To activate the EAN protocol, the AP and UPI wire services would notify stations with a special message.

Later that year, UPI filed for bankruptcy, asking for relief from $ 50 million in debt so that it could be sale-able.

In 1964, the primary election returns were the first in New Hampshire to be reported by UPI and the Associated Press.

Those characters included T ' Toot, a retired Indian fighter ; the Crazy Professor, an inventor and graduate emeritus of UPI ( University of Pecan Island ); Tante Baseline, owner of the Anse La Butte Swamp Gumbo Factory ; Joycie, a female filling station attendant " who's the world's champion dual-wheel semi-trailer flat-tire fixer "; The Headless Man, who " sent his head out to be cleaned and it was accidentally sent to the Avery Island Pickle Factory instead " and lived in the locked cabin of Polycarp's boat ; Doctor Rollingstone, " the hipster swamp doctor who has a transistor radio stuck in his stethoscope "; King Simon, " the duly elected boss of the swamp.

For example, ringing 4 bells on UPI wire-service machines meant an " Urgent " message ; 5 bells was a " Bulletin "; and 10 bells was a FLASH, used only for very important news.

Since the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its one-time major rival, the AP, UPI has concentrated on smaller information market niches.

Bartholomew succeeded in putting the “ I ” in UPI on May 24, 1958, when UP and INS merged to become United Press International.

UPI clients, in contrast, paid a fixed annual rate ; depending on individual contracts, UPI could not always ask them to help shoulder the extraordinary coverage costs.

That move cost UPI the revenues of its previous United Feature Syndicate subsidiary, which in later years made large profits on the syndication of Peanuts and other popular comic strips and columns.

UPI had an advantage of independence over the AP in reporting on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

UPI famously scooped the AP in reporting the assassination of US President John Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963.

De Borchgrave maintained that " what was brilliant pioneering work on the part of UPI prior to World War II, with radio news, is now a static quantity and sofar as I'm concerned, certainly doesn't fit into my plans for the future.

Despite losing a long battle with the Associated Press, called " Rox " by UPI employees, United Press International's legacy was recognized by AP when it made the UPI mantra " get it first but get it right " a cornerstone of a branding campaign launched on ap. org.

In 2008, UPI began UPIU, a journalism mentoring platform for students and journalism schools, that allows recent college graduates to post their work on the site, but does not pay for stories.

* In 1982, UPI pioneered a coding system allowing clients to choose stories based on topic, subtopic and location.

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Always a distant third to its larger rivals the Associated Press and the United Press, INS was merged with UP on May 24, 1958 to become UPI.

The Star printed the story and UPI transmitted its version on October 14.

De Borchgrave maintained that " what was brilliant pioneering work on the part of UPI prior to World War II, with radio news, is now a static quantity and sofar as I'm concerned, certainly doesn't fit into my plans for the future.

In early 1949, a UPI reporter from Fort Wayne sent the story out on the wire services, and the turtle became nationally famous.

Rise and Fall is based upon captured Third Reich documents, the available diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, General Franz Halder, and of the Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, evidence and testimony from the Nuremberg trials, British Foreign Office reports, and the author's recollection of six years reporting on the Third Reich for newspapers, the United Press International ( UPI ), and CBS Radio — terminated by Nazi Party censorship in 1940.

CBS News immediately noticed the report on its UPI machine from the Teletype Corporation.

A son of Lucien Carr, a former UPI editor and a key Beat generation figure, he was born in Manhattan and lived for much of his life on the Lower East Side.

The football program's signature win came on September 5, 1981 in Waco, the Cardinals triumphed with an 18-17 win over the UPI # 20 ranked Baylor Bears.