Word: edstrom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newspapermen are the best half-educated people in the world; they know a little about everything, and all about nothing." With this frank admission about his profession, Edward E. Edstrom, assistant Sunday editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal on leave here as a Nieman fellow, urges prospective journalists to spend their college careers "taking as broad a program as possible...
According to Edstrom, increased concentration is taking place in the newspaper business. With fewer papers, he predicts, will come fewer but better job opportunities, and "newspapers are going to be more and more choosy about whom they hire, with college graduates having a definite advantage...
Sweden. J. Sigfrid Edstrom, chairman of the Swedish General Electric Co., and president of the International Chamber of Commerce, hoped for a worldwide lowering of tariffs and reduction of import quotas. Einar Flygt, vice president of the Swedish Cellulose Co., said Sweden was ready to ship 300,000 tons of chemical pulp (for papermaking) to Britain, and one million tons to the U.S., as soon as the shipping blockade is broken. Some Swedish ships have already been loaded with pulp; he hoped they could sail soon...
Coming to study Central Europe is Kendall Foss, contributing editor on Time Magazine. The eight daily newsmen are David E. Botter, Jr., political reporter on the Dallas News, Robert Bordner, reporter on the Cleveland Press, William H. Clark, feature writer of the Boston Sunday Globe, Edward W. Edstrom, assistant Sunday editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., city editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Ben Holstrom of the Minneapolis Star Journal and Tribune, Nathan W. Robertson, Washington correspondent of PM, and Charles A. Wagner, Sunday editor of the New York Mirror...