Word: gunther
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY (116 pp.)-John Gunther-Harper...
...straying journalists who are ready and anxious to assess it long before the scholars. Journalists Mark Sullivan and Frederick Lewis Allen wrote lively and snappy accounts of contemporary history. But of all the journalists who have attempted history none has made more of a name at it than John Gunther, 61, whose seven Inside books have been bestsellers around the world. "My grand design," writes Gunther in this brief but entertaining autobiography, "is to do a political guide to the whole known world of today...
...Gunther tells it, he came to this ambition because he was miscast as a workaday reporter. A Vienna-based correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, he preferred writing features ("I was ravenously interested in human beings") to spot news. "I have scarcely ever had a scoop in my life," he writes, "and it seemed to me, then as now, abysmally silly to break a neck by beating the opposition by a few seconds on a story." Gunther decided that the tumultuous personalities of Europe-Hitler, Kemal Ataturk, Léon Blum-deserved a full-length book. He did some legwork...
...muscles working nervously as he paused in midsentence to grope for words, Walker assailed, as being soft on Communism, a whole Who's Who in America: Dwight Eisenhower, Eleanor Roosevelt, Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester, USIA Director Edward R. Murrow, Commentators Walter Cronkite Eric Sevareid, Writers John Gunther, Max Lerner, Joseph Barnes, and Harry and Bonaro Overstreet. (It turned though, that he had not read the books that he denounced as bad reading his troops.) He charged that he had "framed in a den of iniquity" was and the victim of a mysterious "real control apparatus" dedicated...
Reidemeister had bought the Klee from the notable dealer Gunther Franke of Munich. An old friend of Klee's. Franke had himself bought the painting in good faith from an American who said it had come from a private collection. Last week Franke wired Feigen that the American was a "J. Alex Greene." Two days later...