Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Called for: a $10,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to Paris' Radium Institute; by French Journalist Eve Curie, daughter of radium discoverers Pierre and Marie. Daughter Eve was invited to pick up the grant at the society's banquet in Philadelphia this week. Available in the U.S. but not invited: Eve's fellow-traveling sister Irene, a director of the institute's physics laboratories...
Writing in the magazine '48, able Journalist Kenneth Stewart agrees that there have been "many stupid, many dull, many reactionary and many ridiculously belated awards." Among the newsmen who get prizes from Stewart and Binder (but never got Pulitzers): Heywood Broun, Raymond Clapper, Webb Miller, H. L. Mencken, A. T. Steele, Dorothy Thompson...
Left-Wing Cad. Leisurely, precise Percy Cudlipp is a first-rate political journalist and a competent, quick-minded editor. Cudlipp sits in with Labor M.P.s on party policy debates, and must answer the closed-door criticisms of his readers at the Labor Party Congress each year. The Herald lambasted Fuel Minister Shinwell in last year's coal crisis, often prints signed critical articles by Labor backbenchers...
...Club's award for the best interpretive foreign correspondence of 1947. When she returns to the U.S. this week, she will add the award (a sheepskin citation and a gold watch) to an assortment of trophies that includes the first major Pulitzer Prize (1937) ever awarded a woman journalist...
...grow up in a small Iowa town) for his father's funeral Peter's sensations of contrast between Big City excitement and small-town torpor have real force. The resurrections of his high-school love affair and the interlude with the Hadley Republican feature writer, a "promising" young lady journalist in her and Peter's bygone teens, catch the bittersweet of memory spanning adolescence-to-thirty...