Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editor who took over for last week's issue, chubby, 49-year-old Robert L. Skelton, was in no hurry to tamper with the magic formula devised half a century ago by an insatiably curious young barrister-journalist named George Allardice Riddell. In the British police courts, Riddell found an inexhaustible treasure of news; he set his reporters to mining it. Unlike American scandal sheets, the News of the World has no "sob sister" interviews with murderers and mistresses; the paper never tries to tell a story before it is told in court, because of Britain's strict...
...Kelly, the mentor of the diving division, is highly pleased with the way Tom Drohan is working out on both the high and low boards. Another February mystery, this time on the positive side of the ledge, appears in the case of Pete Steffens. The son of the famous journalist is now in Greece, but expects to get back to the Indoor Athletic Building in time for some aquatic action...
When his war job was finished, Max Ways became a writer for TIME's new International section. This return to his trade was probably as inevitable as his original decision to become a journalist. His father, Max Ways Sr., city editor of the Baltimore Herald (he gave H. L. Mencken his first reporting job), had advised against it. Said he, with a newsman's directness: "I don't want to influence your decision, but if you ever grow up to be a newspaperman I'll strangle you with my bare hands...
...Theosophical Society, had something that brought savants and social leaders to her feet and keeps her memory hallowed by the 50,000-odd Theosophists scattered around the world. What she had and how she used it is expertly told in a new biography, Priestess of the Occult, by ex-journalist Gertrude Marvin Williams (Knopf; $3.50). Loyal Theosophists will wince at this well-documented story of the Society's origins...
...this haunted houseparty that she made her most brilliant capture- Colonel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society. Honest, credulous Henry Steel Olcott, part-time journalist, a Civil War colonel who had recently been admitted to the New York bar, was the perfect front man. A year later, he had deserted his wife and three sons to devote his time to serving the dynamic Blavatsky...