Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacLeish, has had a varied career as a poet, journalist, and government official. He was Librarian of Congress before the war, and served during the war in the Office of War Information...
...party that thus threatened old Dev? He was a tall, dapper, 43-year-old lawyer who had spent his life in the Republican movement, bombing British armored cars while still a boy, commanding a brigade of the Irish Republican Army while still in his teens. A guerrilla, journalist and orator, he had been in jail often, studied law on the side. In 1937, still wanted by the police, he had succeeded in sitting for his law examinations at Dublin's University College and taking a degree with honors before making his getaway. He was Maud Gonne...
Died. Victor Lvovich Kilbalchich (pen name: "Victor Serge"), 56, former Communist journalist, Trotskyite anti-Stalinist (Russia 20 Years After); of a heart attack; in Mexico City. A member of the Communist International's first Congress in 1919, Serge was managing editor of its official theoretical organ, Communist International. He was jailed briefly in 1928 by the GPU, exiled to Siberia in 1933, released in 1936 following a hullabaloo by Europe's leading writers...
...interim budget. Burly, greying John Lees Carvel, political correspondent for London's evening Star, cheerily hailed his old friend Dalton as he approached the door of the House, asked jokingly about the budget. Dalton threw a jovial arm around Carvel's shoulders and, remembering that the journalist liked a nip now & then, said: "John, your whiskey is going to cost you a bit more from now on. You'll have to pay a penny more for your beer, too." Item by item the salient points of the budget came out in Dalton's banter...
...high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through an adroitly banked and graded performance as the intelligent but question-begging heroine...