Word: journalist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Isaac Frederick Marcosson, 83, tireless, traveling journalist, who scarcely missed a world maker or a world shaker while logging more than 250,000 miles from 1907 to 1936 as correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post; of a stroke; in New York City. Marcosson wrote some 30 books, including David Graham Phillips and His Times, a 1932 biography of the muckraking reporter who was shot down in 1911 while strolling in Manhattan's Gramercy Park by a crazed violinist who imagined that Phillips had defamed his sister in print. Marcosson was a friend of Phillips and the "tried...
...lesser principals were also consistently delightful. Charon Lee Cohen acted the part of Linda, Joey's girl, with pert assurance, and sang with engaging naivote. Laurie Could performed the role of Melba, the demon girl journalist, with the sort of fire and ice that has made her well-known to Harvard audiences. Andy Hiken, as the ncredible Ludlow Lowell, cavorted in the proper Runyonesque manner...
...battalion of paratroopers. Souvanna hailed the "fusion" of Kong Le's soldiers and the Pathet Lao. But in private, the Communists admitted that they were as puzzled as has been many a Western diplomat by Souvanna's fuzzy political ideas. "A very complicated man," said a Soviet journalist. "He says one thing one day and something entirely different the next...
...always written," she reminisces with a smile. "At the age of nine or ten I used to write my own newspaper for my own amusement--editorials, sports, society column and all." But her interest in newspaper-writing was short-lived. "I had a fear of becoming a journalist," she recollects. "I once worked for a newspaper for five months--but I didn't like...
...Burnt-Out Case, by Graham Greene. Deadened in spirit, as a leper is benumbed in body, a famed architect takes himself off to a leper colony, closely followed by a venal journalist intent upon according him canonization-by-newsprint. Never has Greene stated more eloquently his lifelong argument with...