Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper brackets Riggs had a cinch. He chopped off Australian Journalist Harry Hopman after Harry had eliminated troublesome Bitsy Grant. He waded through Joe Hunt, after Joe had spent two days (the match was interrupted by darkness) and five endless sets whittling down French Champion Don Mc-Neill...
...Ronald Lindsay, they sent 57-year-old Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian, owner of 28,000 English and Scottish acres, onetime journalist, Wartime secretary to David Lloyd George. He is an ambitious man who long ago "arrived" in British affairs by hard work. Accused (he denies it) of being a member of the famed, talkative Cliveden Set and of having helped oust Anthony Eden, he favored appeasement until he lost belief in Adolf Hitler's humanity. Then he favored a British military alliance with Russia. Now he may confidently be counted in Britain's war-if-necessary...
Genius and Kallikaks. Whether children inherit temperament, intelligence, musical talent or various diseases is a genetic question that has long worried Manhattan Freelance Journalist Amram Scheinfeld. To solve his problems he consulted a score of famous U. S. geneticists, read several hundred treatises on heredity. This week Journalist Scheinfeld published the first sound, popular treatise on the facts & fictions of heredity.*Main theme of the book is that heredity and environment are a dynamic combination, that development of personality is not governed exclusively by one or the other. Some of his points...
While newspapers in Italy carried three-column headlines describing the ceremonies, not one journal mentioned the fact that Dictator Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883. Newspaper proprietors perhaps remembered the case of one enterprising journalist who found himself without a job after he had published a picture of Il Duce standing beside Italo Balbo, now Governor General of Libya. Governor Balbo looked years younger than Dictator Mussolini. Editors in Italy do not refer to Il Duce as a grandfather; they understand that the picture of Signor Mussolini slipping gracefully into old age is not for Fascist consumption. Featured instead...
...Orient. Her scene: a Shanghai hotel, in the summer of 1937. Her cast of ten carefully disparate characters: a Chinese banker, his Occidentalized son, a refugee Jewish surgeon who had won the Iron Cross, a svelte White Russian married to a drunken English millionaire, a bespectacled little Japanese journalist, a trained nurse from Iowa and her self-pitying fiance from Hawaii, a tuberculous coolie, a young German musician turned opium addict...