Word: eyewitnesser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some London newsmen, foregathered in a Fleet Street pub one day last week, got talking about the great news stories still to be written. Pretty soon they had a list. Their list, in order of importance, as reported by Overseas News Agency: 1) the discovery of Hitler alive, and an...
Eyewitness reports or conditions in those formerly flourishing centers of learning will be found on page three of today's CRIMSON.
The Eyewitness. On this point, the witness Niranjan Singh, a Sikh, testified. Singh, a few weeks ago a prosperous merchant in the Montgomery district of the Punjab, now moves about New Delhi on crutches. He said:
This summer, on his way from Rome back to Japan, Father Lassalle stopped off for two months in Brazil. A priest who had actually been in Japan during the war, and had been an eyewitness of Hiroshima (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), should be able to straighten things out.
John Gunther, the most successful living practitioner of his kind of journalism (a mixture of Burton Holmes, Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell and the World Almanac) is highly readable. His writing is brisk and breezy. It is also glib, superficial, exaggerated, full of impressions passing as insights and facts palmed off...