Word: coblentz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, accompanied by four Communist officials but seemingly not intimidated by them, he drank beer and talked for 45 minutes with three old acquaintances: New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Gaston Coblentz and two British newspapermen. He was neither a Communist nor a traitor, he insisted, and he certainly had not been lured across the line. "My decision [to stay in East Germany] was only finally made after my talks with the Communist authorities," he said. "I would have been free to return if I had wanted...
...Richard E. Berlin, president of the Hearst Corp.; Richard A. Carrington Jr., publisher of the Chief's favorite paper, the Los Angeles Examiner; the Examiner's top editorial man, Editor Raymond T. Van Ettisch; Jacob D. Gortatowsky, 65, general manager of the Hearst newspapers; E. D. Coblentz, 68, of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin; Walter (Front Page) Howey, editor of American Weekly...
...change came as a swap: down to Randy's old job stepped a veteran newsman, Edmond D. Coblentz, 67, able publisher of the Call-Bulletin for the last ten years, who wanted to take things easier. For "Cobbie," who likes to sport a cane and carnation, it was the first letup in 50 years of hustling for Hearst as reporter and editor. Cobbie himself announced the change at a San Francisco banquet for 400, including Governor Earl Warren, Louis B. Mayer, Sam Goldwyn and assorted top Hearst brass, and was given a memento of his San Francisco days...