Word: journalistic
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DIED. Lowell Thomas, 89, prolific journalist and pioneering broadcast commentator; of a heart attack; in Pawling, N.Y. Born in Woodington, Ohio, Thomas wrote for newspapers in Cripple Creek and Denver, Colo. In 1924 he published his first and most popular book, With Lawrence in Arabia. A flood of more than 50 titles followed. Beginning in 1930, Thomas combined the roles of globetrotter and radio network broadcaster with élan and energy. He hunted tigers in India, covered virtually every battlefront in World War II, and in 1949 met with the Dalai Lama in Tibet. Thomas began a new radio show...
...Journalist H.L. Mencken once wrote that his native Baltimore looked "like the ruins of a once-great medieval city." To the TIME staffers who worked on this weeks cover story about Developer James Rouse and Baltimore's urban renaissance, Survival City (as it is sometimes called) had clearly come a long way since Mencken's day. New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, who made frequent trips to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1970 to 1975 as TIME's Medicine writer, returned last week to meet with Rouse Co. officials and spend an evening...
DIED. David Noyes, 83, Chicago journalist and businessman who for 30 years was a counselor to Harry Truman; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Noyes went to Washington to help organize the War Production Board under Franklin Roosevelt, served as an assistant to Truman at the White House until 1953 and remained a close friend and confidant until the former President's death in 1972, helping with his memoirs. Noyes had a hand in such historic decisions as the building of the atom bomb, the firing of General Douglas MacArthur, the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...chemical smoke from paper, plastics and cement factories hangs over the area on all but the windiest days. The town has a medieval center with a church and central square; the impression is of a dying 19th century industrial civilization suffocating an even older culture. Says a Basque journalist: "The young get fed up with the fact they have no hope in the lousy city where they live, so they decide to lira al monte-take to the mountains and go with...
...British perspective on the monarchy today, TIME asked the views of one of that institution's most seasoned, if skeptical observers, whose notable career as a journalist, author and television pundit has been punctuated by stints in government service and as editor of Punch...