Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William H. Chamberlin, prominent author and journalist, will open the afternoon session with an address on "The Revolt Against Civilization." Later in the afternoon there will be discussions on "The Significance of Pan-Americanism Today" and "Democracy Between Two Worlds...
...about Rugg. Professor Rugg reports off-the-record tete-a-tetes with his critics (whom he usually managed to mollify), names his chief foes - New York State Economic Council's Merwin K. Hart, Elizabeth Dilling (The Red Network), Hearst Columnist B. C. Forbes, American Legionnaire 0. K. Armstrong, Journalist George E. Sokolsky. He quotes Hart: "If you find any organization containing the word 'democracy,' it is probably . . . affiliated with the Communist Party." More intriguing than the textbook battle is Professor Rugg's account of the rise of U. S. "frontier thinkers." A descendant of a Minute...
...must have a very exciting life, you meet so many interesting people," is a comment to which few newspapermen ever reply, but last week one did. Though the New York Times calls him a "staff writer," Samuel Johnson Woolf is the only journalist of his kind. An ex-portrait painter, for the last 14 years he has chased after famed men, sketching them with amiable shrewdness, interviewing them as he sketched. Now 61 and lively as ever, Artist-Interviewer Woolf last week published his pleasant memoirs...
...Voice. The gloomy souls who prophesied such a shoddy ending to Bing's career overlooked the most important Crosby quality. Like Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Bill Tilden, who thrilled the fans of the '203, Bing knows how to please the crowd, all ages, all sexes. Journalist Joseph Chamberlain Furnas (-And Sudden Death) stated the case with scientific coolness when he wrote: "The prevalent feminine verdict is still that [Crosby]is definitely cute, while the masculine part of the audience seems not to mind him at all-which distributes the positive and negative reactions in exactly the right...
...journalist of the old school-40 years in the game-I am, I hope, still sufficiently up to date to appreciate the virility of your publication...