Word: journaliste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deliberately Dull? Journalist Ivor Brown thinks there is something to be said for the "odd appetite for knowledge in our times, an appetite which radio [through quiz shows] stimulates and feeds." With relief and some surprise he notes that radio, "instead of flattening out all our accents and idioms, and reducing the rich variety of our national speech . . . has actually popularized diversity." Even "American and Canadian voices seem to have especial powers of coaxing one to listen and to like what one hears...
...believed in his conversion, and has never since had reason to doubt it. In the past nine years Chambers has written and edited TIME stories in such varied fields as Cinema, Religion, Books, and Foreign News; in the judgment of his fellow workers, he has proved himself an outstanding journalist. TIME believes that Chambers' penetrating knowledge of the ways of Communism, at home and abroad, has been extremely valuable to TIME-and to TIME'S readers...
...himself for help. Highly amused, A.J. told the News Chronicle to give Beaver's boys anything they wanted. When the Standard finally got its editorial blast together, the unpredictable Beaver objected that it didn't give his old personal friend and political enemy his due as a journalist. The more Lord Beaverbrook thought about it, the greater journalist Cummings became...
...turns out, who wrote Roosevelt's famous "quarantine" speech. He was the man who told Roosevelt that Mussolini and Hitler were actively intervening in Spain and that non-intervention was a farce. He is, in short, the embodiment of the modern American journalist-politician, the ideal New Dealer, the American equivalent of the glorified Bolshevik of Soviet literature...
Roll Back the Sea is a hard-working attempt to make fiction of their achievement. Its author, A. Den Doolaard (real name, Cornelus Spoelstra) is a 47-year-old Dutch journalist, author of Express to the East (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935), who "meddled in underground work," escaped to England and became chief of the Dutch government's broadcasts. After the liberation of Holland he was posted on Walcheren as liaison officer between the Dutch department of dike repairs and the Royal Engineers...