Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young man, who has ushered them from an anteroom into a comfortable but shabby little office, then seats himself behind its desk and says: "I am Mr. Korda." That, at 42, Kingpin Korda looks and acts like anything but a Hollywood cinemagnate is no accident. A bright young Budapest journalist who got interested in the cinema in 1916, he reached Hollywood by way of Vienna, Rome and Berlin in 1925. His Private Life of Helen of Troy was one of the best silent pictures of its era. When Director Korda left Hollywood in 1928, however, he had had enough...
...Sept. 1, 1909 Dr. Cook, after some two years in the Arctic, announced that he had reached the North Pole. Promptly the Crown Prince of Denmark bestowed on him the medal of the Danish Geographical Society. British Journalist Philip Gibbs at once doubted Cook's story. On Sept. 6, Explorer Robert Edwin Peary, who had raced Dr. Cook to the Pole, said of his competitor: "He has simply handed the public a gold brick." Subsequently examining Dr. Cook's polar observations, a University of Copenhagen commission pronounced: "The documents . . . do not contain observation and information which...
...Oxford! It is a silly life!"). But he won his "blue" for boxing, made more friends, did some studying and began to think for himself. His first encounter with Carlyle did not impress him: "What a queer man! At first his style reminded me of an illiterate Japanese journalist writing for an English paper in Australia!" His letters to his father began to bristle with awkwardly unanswerable questions...
Russell Grinnell will imitate his New Bedford forefathers by entering the fishing industry; Gladwin A. Hill, Transcript correspondent, will deal in ice, coal, and whimsy; and Frank E. Sweetser Jr., another journalist, will become a stenographer. Then Roger W. Drury is attracted by writing, Samuel J. Silberman by farming, and William H. M. Glazier by forestry...
...Manhattan white-haired Dr, Frederick Albert Cook, 71, listing himself as an anthropologist, physician, author, journalist and lecturer, filed a damage suit for $125,000 against the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Writer Jeanette Mirsky, the Viking Press and Houghton Mifflin Co. for "discrediting" his claim to the "discovery" of the North Pole in 1908. Generally considered the master impostor of his time, jailed in 1925-30 for using the mails to defraud in connection with oil-stock swindling, Dr. Cook declared: "Before I die I must clear my good name...