Word: journalist
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...overweight officials unless they got into shape in a matter of weeks. Shevardnadze has said his hobbies are beekeeping and tending his private vineyard. He is well read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata, in his late 20s, but as Nanuli once confided to Borodin, family life takes a backseat to her husband's work. "He's a true Leninist," she said of Eduard Shevardnadze, "a dedicated Communist...
...Saturday evening, Aug. 4, 1962, a 36-year-old actress took an overdose of barbiturates and died in her sleep. Twenty-three years later, the inquest still goes on. Did Marilyn Monroe kill herself? Was she murdered? British Journalist Anthony Summers provides some sensational theories, but he is obviously chary of conclusions and wary of lawsuits. Readers of Goddess will learn far more about Marilyn's fragmented life than of her sorry demise. Some of the tale is overfamiliar: the battered childhood, the teenage bride, the nude photos, the Hollywood parabola, the famous marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller...
DIED. Manfred Gottfried, 85, journalist who in June 1922 became the first editorial employee of TIME, where he wrote as much as one-third of the magazine's copy in its early days and over a 43-year career at Time Inc. edited the National Affairs and Business sections, helped launch Fortune as an associate editor (1931-33) and then served as managing editor of TIME (1937-43), co-editor in chief (1943-45) and chief of foreign correspondents (1946-57); in Falmouth, Mass...
DIED. Noel Fairchild Busch, 78, journalist and author who worked as a writer for TIME (1927-38), as an editor and senior writer for LIFE (1938-52) and as a World War II correspondent for both magazines; of pulmonary fibrosis; in Millbrook, N.Y. His books include biographies of Franklin Roosevelt (1944), Adlai Stevenson (1952), Theodore Roosevelt (1963) and Briton Hadden (1949), his cousin and co-founder with Henry Luce of Time...
...machine gunners opened fire. The action killed NBC Cameraman Neil Davis, an Australian, and William Latch, his American sound man, who were standing in front of the building. The moment was captured for American television by Davis' still rolling camera: in a macabre example of cinema verite, the veteran journalist had filmed his own death. By early afternoon the loyalists had regained control, and an army spokesman warned the insurgents to surrender or "be crushed completely." Within an hour the rebels gave...