Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impeccably written, The Shining Hour is shored up by the intricately modulated performance of patrician Gladys Cooper and the able assistance of Adrianne Allen. Daughter of a journalist, wife of a publisher (Sir Neville Pearson), conspicuous on the British stage for 20 years before last week's U. S. début, Gladys Cooper manages London's Playhouse Theatre, has three children...
...influence has been felt from Finland to Jerusalem. Called "this Ulysses of modern missionaries" by the Bishop of Ely, Dr. Mott needs a good big book to move around in. Such a biography was published last month, a respectful "official" one by Basil Mathews, British religious journalist...
Alert readers of Duranty's articles have noted in them an increasing tone of personal authority. From "the writer ventures to say" Journalist Duranty soon emerges to "I am convinced," "I am prepared to stake my reputation on the fact...
...York Times correspondent with the French army. In 1918 he became assistant Paris correspondent to the Times. Unscathed by bullets, he lost a foot in a French railway wreck after the War. In 1922 the Times made him its official Moscow correspondent. Great & good friend of the late Journalist William Bolitho, and of Quipnunc Alexander Woollcott (who describes Duranty as having "a faint air of skullduggery about him"), Walter Duranty, 49, is small, baldish, quietly alert, enthusiastic, quizzical, brimming with unprinted anecdotes. He lives in Moscow with his French wife, infant offspring...
...storm without retaliation. Superintendent Gill of Norfolk presented an obvious opportunity. He is a subordinate state official, engaged in a revolutionary penal experiment, without important political or financial backing. He has, as the administrator of sizeable appropriations, made many important political enemies. Prisons are good copy for the sensational journalist; the common-place of any prison life, skillfully stated, can easily assume the character of a public scandal. Mr. Osborne was driven from Sing Sing by just such an attack, and although every charge made against him was publicly disproved, he found it impossible to remain at his post...