Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firm convictions. One was that ultimate victory could be assured only by a cross-Channel invasion of Europe. The other was that the sooner the invasion came the better. In the first excerpts from his wartime autobiography, published in the January issue of the Ladies' Home Journal,* 80-year-old Henry Stimson this week gave his account of the battle he fought for adoption of his strategy...
John Wesley, the sturdy little founder of Methodism, who began "field preaching" in the open air to whatever plain folk would listen. He wrote in his Journal: "I look upon all the world as my parish...." By 1791 he had traveled some 250,000 miles, most of it on horseback over miserable roads, often braving angry mobs, to "preach the Gospel to the poor." Wesley's Journal, sixth of the writings selected by Professor McNeill, is a detailed and vivid record of the rough, violent, unequal world which was 18th Century England to all but the privileged...
Eight years ago, the Constitution muffed a chance to buy both the rival Journal and Hearst's Georgian and thus dominate the Atlanta area. Instead, James M. Cox grabbed them. By killing the Georgian and adding its circulation to the Journal's, Cox made it a bigger (circ.231,000)-and more aggressive-daily than the Constitution...
...York Journal-American, Chicago Herald-American, Milwaukee Sentinel, Baltimore News-Post, Los Angeles Examiner, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, San Francisco Examiner...
Parkman was a puritan with a romantic streak, a social snob, a mentally and physically sick man who exalted the strenuous life and cracked under it. The Journals, which cover trips to New England, Canada, Florida, the Northwest and Europe, are as remarkable for what Parkman missed as they are for the precocious talent with which he described what interested him. He was only 17 when he made his first entries, but he had already decided to become an historian. At 23 he made his tour of the Oregon Trail, wrote his most famous (but far from his best) book...