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Actress Shirley Jones embraces role as TV 'grandma', rejects computers
Yes, Shirley Jones is her real name, the actress who shot to fame in Broadway musicals and as the singing TV mom on "The Partridge Family" told the audience at a National Press Club Book Rap on July 26. Jones, who is touring the United States to promote her book, "Shirley Jones: A Memoir," says she prefers nature to computers and social media, and keeps active with TV appearances, touring and an upcoming 50th anniversary of "The Music Man". “I don’t even work on a computer. I don’t do any of that. It is boring," Jones said. "I would rather sit out on my porch in Big Bear Lake and feed a…
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Newsmaker: Austrian Priest Leads Catholic Reform Movement From Within
If the Catholic Church wishes to draw in more priests and young people and continue ministering to all its faithful, it must become more inclusive and transparent, according to Rev. Helmut Schüller, an Austrian Catholic priest who spoke at a National Press Club Newsmaker event on Monday. Schüller is the founder of the Priests' Initiative which issued a “Call to Disobedience” in 2011. This initiative advocates admitting married men and women to the priesthood, changes to church governance, the allowance of greater lay leadership and participation, and inclusive ministries which should include…
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Club Softball Most Successful Season in Team History
The National Press Club softball team finished second in the Metropolitan Media Softball League playoffs for the first time in team history on Saturday, July 13. After losing to Comcast SportsNet 5-4 for their first loss of the 2013 playoffs, the team rallied to beat Allbritton 3-2 on a walk-off double by Sophia Cope, keeping their season alive. The third and final game of the day came against Comcast again, which defeated the Press Clubbers 8-3, ending the most successful season in NPC team history. Watch the video wrap-up below:
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Tom Young and The Warriors Book Rap
National Press Club Member Tom Young discussed his latest book, The Warriors, at a book rap hosted by the Club’s Book and Author Committee. Young brings forward the protagonists, Col. Parsons and Sophia Gold, from his earlier books and puts them at an air base in Kyrgyzstan dealing with a Bosnian arms dealer named Victor Dusek. His story kicks off when a plane carrying opium crashes in a thunderstorm at the air base. The book contains flashbacks to the 1990's during periods of "Ethnic Cleansing” in the Balkans. Young has an exceptional insight into that area of the world since he flew…
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AFP presents Pulitizer-winning photo to Club
Mladen Antonov, director of photography for Agence France-Presse North America, presented to the National Press Club on July 10 the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken by Javier Manzano, an AFP freelancer. During a lunch meeting with members of the Club's Photo Committee, Antonov gave the shot to Club President Angela Greiling Keane. It will hang with other Pulitzer photos that adorn the Club’s halls. The image is a shot of Syrian opposition fighters surveying the surrounding area from the dusty quarters of their sniping hideout. The photograph features the profile of two fighters in…
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SCOTUSblog, Time, USA Today, ABC among National Press Club Journalism Award winners
SCOTUSblog won the Breaking News Award for its coverage of the Supreme Court’s health care ruling, while Time Magazine’s Michael Scherer won a top award for political analysis this year in the National Press Club Journalism contest. USA Today won awards for online journalism and its coverage of the aviation industry. Scherer won the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis for his thorough look at the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama and its sophisticated use of technology to identify voters and donors. The winners will be honored at an awards dinner Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the…
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Fiorina: Bureaucracy chokes life out of entrepreneurs, economy
Rules and regulations emanating from Washington are choking America's potential entrepreneurs, Carly Fiorina, former chairman of Hewlett Packard, said at a July 1 National Press Club luncheon. Fiorina pointed to "alarming" small business statistics that show there are more new and small businesses failing and fewer starting than at any time in the last 40 years. “This depressed state of entrepreneurism, I believe, is why our economy is underperforming,” Fiorina said, noting that the U.S. economy is growing only 1.7%-2.5% annually. Fiorina, chief executive of Good360, said federal mandates…
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Discovery's Hendricks offers roadmap for entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs have to go "all in" to find success, Discovery Communications founder Rick Hendricks told a National Press Club audience on Thursday, June 27. Hendricks, executive chairman of Discovery Communications, in conversation with award-winning TV anchor Paula Zahn, discussed his book “A Curious Discovery: An Entrepreneur’s Story.” He said he wrote the book to give people an understanding of entrepreneurship and provide them a roadmap for turning dreams into reality. Hendricks first became curious about space and science from reading “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet” stories as a child. When…
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Rep. Gutierrez lauds Latino history film, pushes immigration reform
As the Senate weighed the immigration overhaul it passed June 27, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill, told a National Press Club audience that Congress needs a deeper understanding of the varied Latino experience in America. Gutierrez' remarks came during the June 26 screening of “Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America." The documentary, he said, communicates in words and images aspects of immigration he sometimes finds difficult to communicate in congressional committee meetings. “This is the story I want my daughters to know and that I want my grandson to learn,” he said, of the…
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LaHood leaves cabinet with plea for ending gridlock
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Congress to take action to fix America's crumbling infrastructure in a news conference Thursday, June 27 at the National Press Club. "Side shows and name calling'' in Congress are blocking action on America's greatest needs, LaHood said in remarks just hours before the Senate confirmed his successor, Anthony Foxx. ``We can overcome this,'' LaHood said. ``We've done it before.'' LaHood, who served 14 years in the House of Representatives seat previously held by President Abraham Lincoln, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority…
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