Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birthday neared, the Prime Minister found his own tame neutralist policies blamed for much of the trouble, and for India's unpreparedness to meet it. NEW WAVE or ANGER WITH MR. NEHRU, headlined the Ambala Tribune. "The Prime Minister is on trial," reported Bombay's Free Press Journal, as angry readers' letters piled high on editors' desks. Millions now knew that the Prime Minister had for years shrugged off Chinese incursions into faraway Ladakh, Kashmir's northeast tip, had even let China cut a road through the district in 1957 without a challenge. Not until...
Backed by four smoothly concocted "eyewitness" reports, Trud, Russia's official trade-union journal, landed a punch on United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther. Three of the "witnesses" were described as Reuther's shopmates when he put in a stint as a worker at the Gorky automobile plant in 1934; the fourth was a mysterious "N" who claimed to be his long-lost wife, described how Walter wooed her ("an inexperienced girl") with talk of "capitalist chains" and "bloodthirsty exploiters." After eight months of marriage, said she, "he said 'I am going to America...
...English libretto for La Boheme six years ago (Love, rhymed Dietz, "is a feast for a Roman/ It's warming my abdomen") had a Metropolitan Opera production created such a fuss. "Among the finest productions in Bing's regime," wrote Miles Kastendiek in the New York Journal-American. "Non-Mozartean shenanigans," snorted Howard Taubman in the Times, while the Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang denounced it as "a travesty." Occasion: a new production, staged by Broadway's Cyril Ritchard, of Mozart's comic masterpiece, The Marriage of Figaro...
...months, publishing circles have buzzed with the rumor that the New York Journal-American (circ. 599,536), biggest afternoon paper in the Hearst chain, was selling out to Scripps-Howard's afternoon New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ. 450,486). The rumor gained currency in the light of two major Hearst and Scripps-Howard mergers: last year's merger of Hearst's money-losing International News Service with Scripps-Howard's United Press, and last summer's union of Hearst's unprofitable San Francisco evening paper, the Call-Bulletin, with Scripps-Howard...
William A. Rusher '48, publisher of the conservative journal National Review, will speak on the topic "Is Nixon worth It?" in the Winthrop Senior Common Room at 7:30 p.m. tonight...