Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journalism a profession, a trade, a game or a 6% investment? H. L. Mencken once gave his answer: "A journalist still lingers in the twilight zone, along with the trained nurse, the embalmer, the rev. clergy and the great majority of engineers. . . . [He] remains, for all his dreams, a hired man . . . and the hired man is not a professional...
During 1947, cinemaddicts watched him as a gentle back-country father in The Yearling, as a lady-killing hunter in The Macomber Affair, as Lascivious Lewt in Duel in the Sun, and as the crusading journalist in Gentleman's Agreement-performances which established him as an actor of solidity and range...
...government fighters knew they had a tough opponent in Vafiades, who uses the nom de guerre of "General Markos." Born 41 years ago at Kastononv, in Asia Minor, he worked as a bricklayer, painter, carpenter, grocer boy, street vendor, real-estate clerk, army private, tobacco worker, journalist. In 1924 he joined the Communists in Macedonia and edited a Communist workers' publication. His police file shows that he has been jailed at least eight times since 1929; that he is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, lean and muscular; that he has blue eyes, wavy chestnut hair and a mustache that...
Until then, the U.S. wanted U.N. to understand a couple of things: it was not questioning the rights of full-time working newsmen, but it had not "yielded up its sovereign rights to challenge the bona fides of any alien journalist*... to investigate, to hold hearings and to deport . . . if the circumstances warrant...
...Socialists cannot stage a comeback in France," Georges Bethoin, French journalist and veteran of four years in the resistance movement, told members of the Radcliffe UN Council last night...