Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circulation (about 600,000 daily). U.S. newsmen credit its success to shrewd application of tried-&-true U.S. tricks: big, crisp headlines, heavy accent on crime, bright feature stories and splashy makeup. Although he dashes off headlines with oldfashioned, wooden pens, Lazareff comes closer than any other French journalist to the "U.S. idea of a star managing editor...
Sooner or later, it was bound to happen: Journalist John Gunther, who has made a tidy fortune exploring the "insides" of Europe, Asia and Latin America, would some day try to get "inside" the U.S. He has, at last-about as far inside as he ever gets. His conclusion (in a phrase he picked up from Robert E. Sherwood): the U.S. is "lousy with greatness...
...kind of conversational sword play between U.S. Foreign Correspondent Percy Winner and an Italian journalist named Dario Duvolti rustles throughout this urban study of a European Fascist intellectual. When Winner first met Dario in 1925 he was reminded of Count Keyserling's remark about the women of Italy-that as young girls they dream of being grandmothers. Dario, brilliant and ambitious, dreamt of being an ambassador, and was but a few rungs from the top of Mussolini's ladder when it fell in 1943. Unlike most of the climbers, however, he was not hurt. A daring young...
Subtitled "A Fictitious Reminiscence," the book obviously is not all fiction. Europeans will easily recognize Dario as the high-ranking Fascist journalist, Curzio Malaparte, and so will U.S. readers of Malaparte's curious autobiography Kaputt (TIME, Nov. 11). As the profile of a likable opportunist, the novel is convincing, but as a study in the dialectics of Fascism it probes no deeper than the good manners...
Said a British psychiatrist, caught red-handed playing hink pink last week with a doctor, a radio writer and a journalist: "It can be frightfully intellectual...