Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mostly in Europe. Then 23 years old, the duke filled two notebooks as he explored the exotic New World, writing of "very pretty" and "coquettish" Cherokee women, "gross, lazy and inhospitable" whites in Tennessee, and George Washington's "most exquisite politeness" during a dinner at Mount Vernon. The journal has just been published in France as a gesture toward the U.S. Bicentennial...
...West New Guinea), where they were studied for 2½ years by Karl Heider, an anthropologist from the University of South Carolina. Heider, who has taught at Harvard, Brown and Stanford, describes the abstemious sexual behavior of the 5,000-member tribe in the current issue of Man, the journal of Britain's Royal Anthropological Institute. He reports finding no strong sanctions against sexual activity or any other ready explanation for the undernourished libidos of the Dani. Under questioning, tribesmen said violation of the post partum abstinence would cause trouble with the tribe's ghosts. Yet the Dani...
...overseer. I called her office from a pay phone in the Statler. An appointments secretary asked me for a number where she could reach me. I hung up and broke for the convention floor. I made my way past the guards to a row of phones under the Milwaukee Journal banner. I called back and left the Journal's number. There were a few harried moments and then a light on the side of the phone began to blink. Only a few neighboring reporters were there to laugh as I answered "Harvard Crimson...
Lynn Rosellini, 29, was recommended by the Washington Star for a Pulitzer Prize for her four-part series on homosexuality in sports, a topic male reporters have generally avoided. Mary Garber, 60, has been covering sports for the Winston-Salem Journal since 1944, and colleagues agree that she is the toughest interviewer in town...
...From 1767 until her death last year at age 55, Anne Catherine Green, widow of Printer Jonas Green, by whom she bore 14 children, served as printer to the province of Maryland and publisher of its first newspaper, the Maryland Gazette. The province's second newspaper, the Maryland Journal, is also published by a woman: Mary Katherine Goddard. In addition to her editorial work, the indefatigable Miss Goddard, 38, manages Baltimore's busiest printing firm, owns a bookstore, and became city postmaster last year. In her career, Miss Goddard is following the example of her mother, Sarah Updike...