Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the station by telephone, but the control panel gave no clue about its origin. Mysteriously unavailable were WOL General Manager William B. Dolph and Program Director Madeline Ensign. The whole thing had a fine conspiratorial flavor, which was quite in keeping with the business at hand-a radio interview with burly, gap-toothed Jan Valtin (real name: Richard Julius Herman Krebs), who has been hiding out fearful of lethal attention from the GPU and Gestapo ever since he spilled bushels of Communazi beans in his best-selling Out of the Night...
...successful portrait painter, Woolf rebelled at last because a sitter's tailor complained of the way Woolf painted his client's suit. Turning to lithography, he was hired by the New York Times to do illustrations for its book and feature sections. The idea of doing interviews with his sketches came from an encounter with George Bernard Shaw. Turned down when he called personally to do a sketch of Shaw, Woolf wrote him a Shavian letter, saying that "immortality will not be yours until I have drawn you." Replied Shaw: "I have now considerable experience as an artist...
Pattern for the new press section is a regular City Room. "Beat" men will cover the War Department, interview generals, turn in stories to rewrite men. A lobster trick editor stays on until midnight to handle late queries from morning papers. Only because of limited space did Lieut. Colonel-Editor Grogan reluctantly abandon his plan to install a regulation U-shaped copy desk...
...dislike which German men held for their own two years of compulsory military service, John B. Shallenberger 2GB, who spent three months in Europe at the start of the present conflict, criticized German women and praised the efficiency of the Fifth Column in the United States in an interview last Saturday...
Although they are receiving terrific punishment, the British are holding out remarkably well, Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, said in an interview recently after having returned from a six-weeks trip to England...