Word: editor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Verwoerd's newspaper, Die Transvaler, triumphantly headlined every Nazi victory in World War II, railed against "British Jewish liberalism." When he was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, Verwoerd sued for libel. But the judge ruled that Editor Verwoerd "did support Nazi propaganda; he did make his newspaper a tool of the Nazis in South Africa, and he knew...
...better than three years, dark-haired, dynamic Editor-Publisher Charles Foley has shaped his Times into a trimly edited, headline-splashed eight-column paper that generally has islanders choking on their breakfast. He thinks, and says, that British policy is a mess. He loudly deplores Greek terrorism for destroying all chance of peace. He blasts the island's Turkish leader for stirring up racial hatred...
Last year Foley greeted new Governor Sir Hugh Foot with quiet approval-until he became convinced that Colonial Office blimps were directing Foot into the same clumsy repression that undid his predecessor. One recent battle: a successful fight for the release of the editor of the island's largest Greek-language newspaper, jailed for refusing to kill a story...
...Quiet Place." India-born and London-educated, Foley, 49, got his first job on the Chicago Tribune's famed Paris Tribune, later worked 15 years as foreign editor on Lord Beaverbrook's giant (circ. 4,116,157) Daily Express. After World War II, Foley wrote a bestselling book on Hitler's daredevil Handyman Otto Skorzeny and guerrilla warfare, quit the Beaver and sailed to Cyprus in 1955. "It seemed a quiet place," he says...
...candidate for office can backfire embarrassingly-as the Miami News (circ. 137,598) once discovered when, in the midst of a crusade against gamblers, it recommended a city council candidate who turned out to be a convicted bookie. Last year, when crew-cut Columnist William C. Baggs, 37, became editor of James M. Cox Jr.'s News, he reserved the right to name the candidates the paper would support. Baggs set up a six-man editorial board to grill candidates in off-the-record sessions. As Florida's Democratic primary campaign drew to a close this week...