Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wittenberg College Eric Sevareid, broadcaster and news analyst Litt.D...
...time, and a very leisurely time it was, a novel resembled a sheaf of obituary notices; it took various characters from the cradle to the grave and firmly left them there. Nowadays, when a novel may resemble anything from an unrhymed poem to an unprintable pamphlet or an analyst's case book, there is something refreshing about this old-style trilogy (its component novels were published in the U.S. more than a decade ago, but this is the first U.S. publication of all three in a package). Most remarkable fact about this work: Novelist L. P.* Hartley manages...
Died. Elmer Holmes Davis, 68, Hoo-sier-twanging radio news analyst, World War II head of the Office of War Information, a founding father of ADA, sometime novelist, essayist (But We Were Born Free), idealist ("It's better to be a dead lion than a live dog"); of complications following a stroke; in Washington, D.C. A Rhodes scholar who wrote personal letters in finest Latin, Davis was a longtime (1914-24) New York Times reporter and editorial writer...
...friendly analyst of his native Midwest, Newsman Martin has turned his fact finding into eight books, but flopped the one time he tried a novel. (The publisher sent him a one-sentence comment: "You had better stick to nonfiction.") Says Martin: "I've always been interested in the individual human being and what happens to him in a society that really doesn't work as well as it should. I think that's the common denominator of my work. Sounds kind of pretentious, but I think...
...graduate of the University of Wisconsin and with an M.A. from Michigan, McCloskey served as Administrative Assistant to Michigan Governor Harry F. Kelly in 1944 and as analyst for the Michigan Civil Service Commission...