Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were trying to report it? Earnest, grey-haired Sevellon Brown thought the answer was an emphatic Yes. Like many a publisher with a conscience, he had an uneasy feeling that the press was falling down on its job. The daily montages of headlines, in his Providence Journal and Bulletin and elsewhere, were nagging proof that the times demanded better papers, bigger and broader newsmen-on penalty of chaos...
...keep their trains of thought from being derailed, the Institute picked as discussion leaders such editors as the New York Times's Turner Catledge, the Cleveland Press's Louis B. Seltzer, the Louisville Courier-Journal's James Pope. Among scheduled guest lecturers: the C.I.O.'s black-haired James B. Carey and opinion samplers George Gallup and Elmo Roper...
...blatant columns of type, cartoons and pictures, Hearst's New York Journal-American last week went on a seven-day sentimental jag. Occasion: the golden anniversary of William Randolph Hearst's brash invasion of the New York newspaper field. Like any 50-year-old celebrating a birthday (see above), the Journal remembered just what it wanted to about the good old days...
Back in 1896-the year when Adolph S. Ochs bought control of the tired Times for $75,000-ambitious young (33) Hearst picked up the tottering Journal for $180,-ooo. Over at the World (according to the Journal's historians), Joseph Pulitzer pooh-poohed: "No one from the West lasts in New York." Before long such Pulitzer prizes as Arthur Brisbane, S. S. Carvalho and Merrill Goddard were working for Hearst, and inside of a year the Journal's circulation skyrocketed from...
Tucked into the Journal's 16,000-word chronicle of medicine-show journalism were many carefully chosen glimpses of the Chief. But none showed him as his early opposition had seen him (see cut). There was his election to Congress in 1903 (but, naturally, no mention of his ill-fated tries for the presidency, the New York mayoralty and governorship). There was his imperial decree...