Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extraordinarily prescient book called Rats in the Larder, written in 1938 -mostly before the Munich Agreement had made every European journalist a Cassandra-TIME'S Copenhagen Correspondent Joachim Joesten gave two reasons why Germany was certain to overrun Denmark early in the next war. Last week, which found Correspondent Joesten a fugitive in Sweden, his prediction and his reasons were upheld almost word for dire word. One of the reasons was strategic (see p. 19). The other was economic: Denmark is the larder of hungry Europe...
...Journalist Douglas Reed, who was for many years London Times correspondent in Berlin, sensed a dark parallel. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post he wrote: "Are we going to tread the whole path that Berlin trod and have palaces of sexual perversion with electric signs outside advertising the wares? To anybody who remembers the appalling conditions in Berlin between 1918 and 1930, the present trend of affairs in London is terrifying. . . . Girls do not WANT to dance nude. They want to become stars as singers, dancers, or actresses. ... All are told that stardom is within their reach...
Manhattan-born and bred, Betsy Blackwell is the daughter of a playwright and a stylist. Her father, Hayden Talbot (he authored several successful plays and movies, was the first journalist to get an authorized statement from Wilhelm Hohenzollern after World War I), has been married six times, to the best of Betsy's recollection - she has not seen him since she was eight years old. Her mother used to be a fashion expert for Lord & Taylor...
Last week 62-year-old Sir Willmott added another side line to his activities. With Polish Journalist Edward Weintal, he brought out thefirst issue of Foreign Correspondence, a weekly newsletter review of events abroad, for U. S. readers...
Often the name of Max Lerner has been suggested, and just as often turned down. The explanation has been that as a journalist he lacks teaching experience. But this is no longer true. For the past two years he has taught at Williams, and has also done a good job at the Harvard Summer School. There is no doubt about his ability as an original thinker; the two books "It Is Later Than You Think" and "Ideas Are Weapons" are no mean achievement for a man of his comparatively few years. He could be a very active tutor, and would...