Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great fund of Behrman anecdotes may serve to obscure, in the minds of his listeners, his own considerable accomplishments as a playwright and journalist. Although much of his time has been devoted to the stage since the production of his first play, The Second Man, in 1927, he says, "What I really love to write is prose...
Brazilian newspapers applauded the news last week that President Eisenhower had picked Clare Boothe Luce to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Brazil-the U.S.'s first woman envoy to a Latin American country. Sometime journalist (managing editor of Vanity Fair at 29), playwright (The Women), movie author and scenarist (Come to the Stable) and Congresswoman (from Connecticut, 1943-47), Clare Luce, 55, served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy for 3½ eventful years-1953-56. During her service in Rome, Communism's threat to Italy was decisively broken, and she helped settle the explosive old quarrel between...
Exiled Hungarian Journalist Tibor Meray. 33. is a plodding novelist but a masterly expositor of black-is-white party dialectics and the mechanics of self brainwashing. As a Communist reporter in Korea, he cried up the monstrous germ warfare charges against the U.S.. later took part in the Hungarian Revolution and fled to Paris, where he now lives...
Mustered in a hurry, the journalist army trained its eyes on the riotous color of Cuba in ferment. Rivers of copy surged onto the front pages, but the meaning of Cuba's sudden agony was left to deskbound editorial writers. They fired from the hip. Batista, the deposed tyrant, was condemned. Castro, the idealistic liberator, rated approving choruses, relieved only here and there by a suspicious question. In the next phase, as the tattoo of rebel firing squads stitched a new pattern on the face of Cuba, and the landscape was no longer boldly black and white, U.S. readers...
...Cuba Bonsai will represent the U.S. before a government making an erratic return to democracy and prone to blame Washington for all its troubles. But he has a unique spiritual link with an earlier rebel Cuba through his late father, Journalist-Diplomat Stephen Bonsai, who in 1897 wrote The Real Condition of Cuba, an eloquent report on the tyranny that won him the gratitude of the rebels, later a Cuban decoration...