Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bookish youth with a new Phi Beta Kappa key (Columbia University), answered a blind want ad in the New York Times for a secretary. The advertiser turned out to be the Times itself. After three years in the business office, he switched to the news department. A reluctant journalist, who still has a tendency to be ponderous and pontifical, he spent much of the next ten years longing to get back to his books (Dante, medieval history). Even when he became second man in the Times's Paris bureau, he writes ruefully, he stuck to his ivory tower, picked...
LaGuerre is a good example of the kind of journalist it takes to do the kind of foreign political reporting you expect to get from TIME. He has an intimate knowledge of French politics; he also knows the American idiom. He spent his boyhood in San Francisco, where his father was a French consular official. He stayed there long enough to graduate from high school and to pick up an unquenchable enthusiasm for American baseball. He completed his education in England and France and, as a private in the French army, was evacuated from Dunkirk. Charles de Gaulle rescued...
...answer was that George Stimpson was less a journalist than an encyclopedist who loved facts for their own sakes. He never learned the difference between a big fact and a little one; his head and his dim little office in the National Press Building were overstuffed with trivia. (His "A" file was crowded with items like "a in Thomas a Becket," and "Addison Sims of Seattle.") His cluttered, rolltop desk was buried under facts, but barren of news. He had a scholar's knowledge of Shakespeare, history and cats. Once he went to Europe just to track down elusive...
...sallow one with tousled, thinning grey hair said he wanted to get to Moscow. He said it in Russian. The maps didn't help; the whim of Ilya Grigorevich Ehrenburg to visit Moscow, Ala. was not satisfied.* But by last week the Soviet Union's foremost journalist had spent 15 days rambling through the South at his own pace, following his own itinerary with companions of his own choice. It was the kind of reportorial freedom that U.S. correspondents in Moscow often dream about but never know...
With the announcement yesterday that W. H. Auden, the English bard, will be the Poet at the Phi Beta Kappa commencement exercises, while Byron Price, well-known journalist, will be the Orator, plans for the first post-war commencement began to take on the promised air of pre-war dignity...