Word: arnaldo
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Died. Salvatore Cortesi, 82, famed Italian journalist (who scooped the world on the death of Pope Leo XIII), for 29 years chief of the Rome Bureau of the Associated Press.† father of the New York Times's Rome Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi; in Florence...
...Other winners: The Scranton Times, public service; Reporters William L. Laurence and Arnaldo Cortesi (New York Times), Homer Bigart (New York Herald Tribune), Edward A. Harris (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); Cartoonist Bruce Russell (Los Angeles Times). History: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s Age of Jackson. Biography: Linnie M. Wolfe's Son of the Wilderness. Play: Lindsay & Grouse's State of the Union. Music: Leo Sowerby's Canticle of the Sun. Novel and poem: no award...
...Arnaldo Cortesi is a patient and easygoing man. In his 17 years as New York Times correspondent in Italy, Cortesi managed to get along with Fascist officials while many another newsman was kicked out of the country. Cortesi (rhymes with more-lazy) had to get along: he was an Italian citizen. (His mother was from Boston; his father was Associated Press bureau chief in Rome for 29 years...
Lean, leisurely Arnaldo Cortesi was schooled in Italy and England, became something of a scholar and a connoisseur of wines. He learned to like the cafe life of Rome, and the way Mussolini's trains ran on time. Leftwingers loudly accused the Times of employing a Fascist apologist; and even other Timesmen rebutted him on occasion...
...consultations . . . took place ... to decide . . . whether anything could be done to counteract the disastrous impression created throughout the continent by what he had written." Last week Argentina's Minister of the Interior summoned Cortesi, warned him "not to be surprised at any thing that may happen to you." Arnaldo Cortesi, to the amazement of all (presumably including himself), found himself acclaimed far & wide as a fearless, crusading, censor-defying journalist...