Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Grace H. Roper, fourth of U. S. Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper's seven children, 1917 Vassar graduate, British trade expert for the U. S. Tariff Commission; and Frank Bohn. 57, free-lance journalist specializing in international relations; in Washington...
...Little brought out the fact that he was now painting, not writing, and as a result of this he is now painting real faces and not literary faces. Walter Lippmann '10 was next called to the speakers' stand to receive the benediction that "he was a great journalist who refused to be buried on Boston Common." He was further praised by the phrase "his discussions of the Republican and Democratic parties are more interesting than the parties themselves...
...fully and deeply explored. Of Greek and Irish descent, blind in one eye, Hearn arrived in New York in 1869. Later he lived in Cincinnati where he became involved in a scandal with a mulatto woman; in New Orleans where he won a small reputation as a scholar and journalist; in the West Indies, where he renounced Western civilization. In 1890 he settled in Japan, married a member of a distinguished Samurai family, became a Japanese citizen and professor of English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo, adopted his wife's family name of Koizumi ("Little Spring...
...contact men, James T. Williams Jr. and John A. Kennedy, used to call often on Mr. Garner. Now their visits are few & far between. Nominee Roosevelt made a different mistake. He feared that his running mate might make the ticket look ridiculous. So the Brain Trust sent a bright journalist, Charles Hand, to act as censor of the Garner utterances. To a man who had been a practicing politician when Roosevelt was in short pants, this was the ultimate insult...
...face in a picture the world has come to know as the Mona Lisa would be ended by a few facts about the fat-cheeked woman sitting smugly against the sea-green setting of winding water and oddly spired landscape.* Forty years after Leonardo's death a painter-journalist named Giorgio Vasari told the world that that woman had been Madonna Lisa, third wife of a Neapolitan named Francesco di Bartolommeo di Zanobi del Giocondo. Of Lisa little is known. Last week Dr. Raymond S. Stites, professor of art and esthetics at Antioch College, ended a twelve-year...