Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inauguration as Lebanon's new president through a capital seething under a 48-hour curfew. In all its five-month civil war, Lebanon had never been more tense. This time it was the Christians who had erupted into new violence in protest against the abduction of a Christian journalist and backer of retiring President Camille Chamoun...
Does Princess Margaret still love Peter Townsend? Into print in the U.S. last week loomed the latest answer to the old poser: The Peter Townsend Story, by Political Journalist Norman Barrymaine, a friend of Townsend's. Barrymaine, leaning heavily on unidentified sources, says that the princess is still that way about her old flame, once told him that she "was too deeply in love with him ever to marry anyone else." "My belief," says Barrymaine, without unearthing any new evidence, "is that Princess Margaret would still like to marry Peter Townsend," although "at the moment the religious and political...
Died. John McPartland, 47, husky, bushy-haired chronicler of suburban sex foibles (No Down Payment), successful freelance journalist; of a heart attack; in Monterey, Calif. McPartland, who once wrote, "Sex is the great game itself." lived as harum-scarum a life as any of his characters, had a legal wife and son at Mill Valley, Calif., a mistress at Monterey who bore him five children and who, as Mrs. Eleanor McPartland, was named the city's 1956 "Mother of the Year." Later, McPartland's legal widow submitted the daughter of an unnamed third woman...
Before he joined TIME, Philadelphia-born John Scott worked as a master welder at Magnitogorsk in the Urals, attended a Soviet engineering school, married a Russian mathematics teacher. In 1941, two weeks before the Nazi invasion, the Russians ejected Author-Journalist Scott (for reporting friction between the two countries). Last week, after winding up his first visit to Russia in 17 years, Scott wrote...
Full Cycle. With his journalist's eye, Author Moorehead does not overlook the story's gaudy set pieces, including the mass funeral of revolutionaries at which 1,000,000 people, or half the population of Petrograd, marched in silence (the dead were buried without religious services, but next day. in a shamefaced gesture, priests were brought to say prayers). And there is also the unforgettable picture of Lenin being transported-in Churchill's phrase "like a plague bacillus"-across Germany in the famous sealed train. Lenin made his associates retire to the train toilet to smoke...