Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bruce Catton, author, journalist, editor...
...promoted. Adolph Ochs made his son-in-law publisher and now [Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is making his son-in-law publisher." Said Kupcinet: "Isn't the editor of Izvestia, Aleksei Adzhubei, the son-in-law of Chairman Khrushchev?" Kraminov (after a pause): "But Adzhubei is a first-class journalist...
...Call on Kuprin (by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee; based on Maurice Edelman's novel) tells of an American journalist (Jeffrey Lynn) who, while vacationing in Moscow, seeks out his former Ohio astronomy professor (George Voskovec), now the greatest of Soviet scientists. What begins as a mere reunion turns, at the behest of the U.S. embassy, into an appeal to Scientist Kuprin to escape to America. What begins as an appeal turns, through the vigilance of the U.S.S.R., into some brisk spy-and-counterspy hanky-panky. At the end Kuprin, caught out, swears to stay permanently...
...Author Uris relies not on comic but on sensual relief. Andrei carries on a years-long affair with a Polish Catholic girl of disconcertingly bobby-soxish ardor ("Isn't he yummy?"). And the grand passion of the book involves a Jewish mother of two and an Italo-American journalist who deices her frigidity. Throughout, Uris' dialogue conjures up hours of bad movie time...
...last previous cleric to be publicly unfrocked for adultery, the late Rector of Stiffkey, turned circus performer and was devoured by a lion. Thomas, choosing a safer pursuit, has turned journalist. Even as the congregation prayed hopefully for the vicar's "true repentance and amendment of life," Thomas was cheerfully splashing his life story across the front pages of the Sunday newspapers. As he told it, his plight was that female parishioners continually threw themselves at him. Said Thomas: "When I look back upon my years as a minister of the Gospel, I am by no means cast down...