Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barry Bingham, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal; Alfred Friendly, managing editor of the Washington Post and Times Herald; and John M. Harrison, editorial writer on the Toledo Blade, will serve on the Selecting Committee for Nieman Fellowships for 1957-58, the university announced. William M. Pinkerton, director of the Harvard News Office and Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, are the other members of the committee...
...Happy Man. So did George, who wanted only to publicize his grievance. Then one day he picked up a copy of the Hearst New York Journal-American "Give yourself up," read an open letter to the Mad Bomber. "You will get a fair trial." George could not resist answering. The J-A continued to play him on the line; slowly George's cautious replies produced enough information to send Con Edison clerks scurrying through a mass of old "troublemaker" files. Sure enough, there was George's folder...
SNAKE DOING IN THE STARLET'S BED?) to slick women's magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, which inquired recently: ARE WE COMMERCIALIZING SEX? (Conclusion: "Maybe.") Many other mass-circulation magazines have joined the fad for question mark journalism, and in recent months have popped brain-rattling questions ranging from WAR GETTING CLOSER? (Answer: Few governments "now rule it out") to HOW WILL THE BIRD FLY?, a report on the stock market that concluded sagely: "There was solid ground for fogbound uncertainty." In McGraw-Hill's Business Week, an inquiring headline writer last week achieved...
This week the February Ladies' Home Journal hits the newsstands with Swift's ad. Admen estimated that Swift, whose coupons will have reached a total of 15,075,137 subscribers and newsstand buyers, would not have to redeem more than 5%, the standard figure for such promotions. But last week's sales indicated that the company might have to pay considerably more than the million dollars it would normally allot for the event...
...city council (TIME, Dec. 17). "How long," asked the Courier-News at the height of the hoodlumism, "are the people of Clinton going to continue to sit idly by and see their officials kicked around merely because they believe in law and order?" Georgia's Eastman Times-Journal (circ. 2,530), which was credited with killing off a postwar revival of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia in 1950. has been one of the few papers in the South to urge Negro voters to go to the polls...