Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduation dresses for high-school girls who could not afford them, helped raise $55,000 for a clubhouse for the Indoor Sports, an organization of shut-ins. He became San Diego's best-known newspaperman, and one of its best-loved citizens. Four years ago, when the rival Journal hired him away from the Union, hundreds of readers came with him to follow his new column, "People We Know...
Then Forrest Warren wrote his last column, marked it "hold for release," sent it to the Journal to be run when he died. It ran last week. Across Page One, the Journal spread Forrest Warren's goodbye and "God bless you" to his San Diego friends, who had taught him, he wrote, that "people are still interested in helping their neighbors." Two days later in Balboa Park, 2,000 friends attended his funeral. As Forrest Warren had requested, the preacher kept his remarks brief...
Died. Philip Dansken ("P.D.") Ross, 91, dean of Canadian newspapermen, millionaire publisher (for 62 years) of Canada's most widely quoted paper, the Tory Ottawa Journal (circ. 56,293); of hypostatic pneumonia; in Ottawa...
Other critics of Britain's universities disagree. Editor Michael Oakeshott, in the Cambridge Journal, argues that no new tradition is needed, that the most a university has to give is "the gift of an interval ... a break in the tyrannical course of irreparable events...
Last week Newsman Cope was reaching an even broader audience: his first book, Front Porch Farmer (Turner E. Smith & Co.; $2.75) was Atlanta's No. 1 non-fiction bestseller, and four Southern state universities had approved it as an agricultural textbook. Even the rival Atlanta Journal gave Constitution Columnist Cope an ungrudging pat on the back: "An important book for the entire South. Channing Cope is a prophet...