Word: interview
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan newsgatherers went last week, as they have gone annually for many a year, to interview Nikola Tesla on his birthday. This year it was his 71st birthday but Nikola Tesla said nothing that he had not said on his 61st birthday?or his 41st for that matter...
...question about them had been raised by Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, warden of New College, Oxford, lately Government education minister and for many years a trustee of the Rhodes Fund. The question had been relayed by Professor J. C. Beaty, traveling fellow of Columbia University, after an interview with Mr. Fisher. The question seemed to be: Are Rhodes Scholars now "running the country" (i. e. the U. S.), as Cecil Rhodes hoped they would...
...reach the cold ones, Mr. Buchman invented an evangelizing process that still is little understood. He uses the intimate interview, the personal exhortation. And he has been effective. His adepts stop at nothing in telling their experiences. It becomes a goal for them to reveal their sins, to bare their private pollutions...
...until last fortnight did Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) publish an interview telling how the daughter of a press potentate enjoys and conducts herself as a member of her father's staff. Then it became apparent that assembling tabloid news is as much fun for the daughter as furnishing it to the masses is for the parent. Miss Patterson said: ". . . the most fun in the world. Far better than going to school, and you learn so much more...
...woman in Hoboken was in court accused of henpecking her husband, allowing him only 50� per day to spend. Miss Patterson was sent to interview this unusual woman. Climbing to the top of a Hoboken tenement, Miss Patterson tapped on a door and at once confronted a beldame "about ten feet wide." Miss Patterson started to explain that she was from the Daily News. No sooner had she named that name than the "wide" woman approached, menacingly. "Downstairs I went," Miss Patterson told Editor & Publisher, "and not exactly right side up either...