Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editors Frederick Morgan, 25, an ex-G.I., Joseph Bennett, 26, a Navy veteran working as an investment analyst in Wall Street, and William Arrowsmith, 23, a 1948 Rhodes scholar, have been two years launching Hudson Review. As a nonprofit literary venture, they got $6,600 in working capital from friends (who hoped to deduct the contributions from taxes), and for a mailing address used the Manhattan home of Morgan's father, Sapolio Soapmaker John Williams Morgan...
...Grauer had come a long way for a baloney salesman. On NBC's big new documentary series, Living-1948 (Sun., 4:35 p.m., NBC), he was the narrator and star. In his nine other regular radio and television jobs, he ran the gamut between straight man and U.N. analyst. The New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby has said with some amazement that Grauer "does everything but sweep out the studio...
...about those rejection slips anyway." The managing editor of Good Housekeeping advises, "If you write for your own amusement, you can be as dismal as you choose, but the public continues to prefer entertainment to morbidity . . . I often feel that if I come across one more trauma or psycho-analyst's couch in a manuscript, I will become a manic-depressive and scream...
...best informed women in the U.S. on international affairs" wrote a letter to J. M. Roberts Jr., foreign affairs analyst of the Associated Press. She had been all in favor of appeasing Russia. But now: "We should start an 'unprovoked' war, use atom bombs...
There was nothing comic, however, about the conclusions reached by qualified observers. New York Times Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin found that, while the exercise proved the feasibility of limited, small-scale operations over snow-covered terrain, large-scale transpolar military expeditions would be "virtually impossible." Wrote he: "The difficulties of mass airborne operations in subzero weather are so major that they may never be solved." Mars, like a brass monkey, could not stand intense cold...