Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times, though the Frenchman threatened to have him keep his watch out on the table and allow him fifteen minutes. Boswell also brought his moral problems to Rousseau in spite of an unprecedented indifferences on the latter's part. Counseling Boswell was easy, however, as readers of his London Journal will remember: Rousseau advises him to leave the lady to her husband...
After finishing the Grand Tour with Boswell, the reader knows him too well to agree with all of this. The Journal, a means of study far superior to the psychiatrist's one-way mirror, allows us to know Boswell better than anyone did in his own generation. Whatever is the final judgment on his "Original humor: or "knowledge of human nature," one statement is undeniable. Boswell is a singular being...
...Yonkers track got other Manhattan papers interested in the harness-racing scandals, Newsday was ready. It had already turned its evidence over to the New York City Anti-Crime Committee, which handed it out to other papers to use in digging up their own stories. The New York Journal-American discovered that Acting Lieutenant Governor Arthur Wicks, along with other prominent officials, had also visited Labor Racketeer Fay in Sing Sing (TIME, Oct. 12). As a result, Dewey asked Wicks to resign. Wicks offered to "let the Senate pass upon my fitness." In its zeal, the J-A was also...
...this and a 'dash' of that." Some papers provide their editors with elaborate test kitchens, but most food writers try their recipes at home, must be ready to answer the phone at all hours to rescue a distraught hostess trapped in mid-soufflé. Says Louisville Courier-Journal's Cissy Gregg: "They call me sometimes at 2 or 3 a.m. and say 'Look, I'm making such and such and this is where I am. Now what's next...
...discovered that De Koning's union members, to hold their jobs at the track, were forced to kick back part of their salaries, buy tickets at exorbitant prices to dances and dinners laid on by De Koning, and buy $50-a-page ads in the union's journal, owned by De Koning. Newsday also publicized De Koning's ownership of the Labor Lyceum, a bar, restaurant and hall where labor functions were held and where the kickbacks were collected...