Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reformation was part of a campaign by Fawcett Publications Inc., founded on the late Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, to make itself respectable. The reformer was a drawling newsman named Bill Williams, 42, who had cut his reporter's teeth on crime stories. (Once, he barely escaped death in a crossfire between Dillinger...
Born on a South Dakota ranch, beefy Bill Williams played on two college football teams (Wisconsin and Centre College, Danville, Ky.). He had been a Burns detective, a Yellowstone guide, and city editor of the Minneapolis Journal before he joined Fawcett in 1941. He was put to work editing Mechanix Illustrated, ran its circulation up from 216,000 to 440,000. Then he was handed True and told to make it a "general magazine for men." He tossed out the horror tales, switched to slick paper, went hunting for good writers (C. S. Forester, Budd Schulberg, Lucian Cary) and began...
...Bill Benton was hot under the collar. For two weeks, as head of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on Freedom of Information at Geneva (TIME, April 12), he had listened to Russian charges of U.S. "warmongering." Last week, he went to Paris and let off some steam. In a speech to the Anglo-American Press Association, Benton said that the Russians had gone to Geneva "primarily to create propaganda that, they hope, will further undermine freedom of expression in the world." By insisting that Russia's repression of the press is freedom and that the freedom...
...conference dispatches. "If an American or British or French news agency were guilty of such shockingly one-sided, malicious reporting," said he, "the enraged readers would put it out of business. Tass is the official distorter, the official liar of the Soviet government." Lest the Russians miss his point, Bill Benton had copies of his speech passed around to the delegates at Geneva...
Obviously millions more would like to seethe paintings, yet the Army was preparing to return them to Germany as soon as the show closed next week. Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright introduced a bill to hold the paintings in the U.S. a while longer...