Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCormick, Britain's Beverley Baxter, M.P., drama critic (the Evening Standard) and ex-managing editor (the London Daily Express), observed: "As a journalist, I salute him . . . As a Britisher, I would not weep if he got caught up in his own presses and added a fifth color to his cartoons...
...General Booth has never written her memoirs, though she has often been urged to. Said she: "I have never written about myself. I won't write about myself, and that decides it." But she let somebody else do it: she handed her papers and correspondence over to British Journalist Philip Whitwell Wilson, with whom she had been in close touch for some 20 years. Published this week is Author Wilson's General Evangeline Booth (Scribner; $3.50)-a warm and folksy paean of praise for a remarkable woman...
Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903, allegedly near London. ("It's a great secret where I was born," Waugh said, when asked by TIME's London bureau, and hung up.) His father, a journalist turned successful book publisher, was a man of solidly middle-class taste, who reared Evelyn and his elder brother Alec (The Loom of Youth, Going Their Own Ways) in the solidly middle-class London suburb of Finchley...
...York Daily News, which sells more copies (2,350,000) than any other U.S. daily, was 29 years old last week-and feeling a little sensitive about praise from an unexpected quarter. In an article in Harper's called "Great Newspapers, If Any" of the U.S. press, Journalist Gerald W. Johnson had ranked the News high-as a business enterprise, at least...
...this juncture the pundits have pretty much had their say. From now on until the Republican nominee is chosen, 'the journalist's job is not only to record the events that occur but also to tell how they came about. That takes considerable doing-and shoe leather, for which, as in the case of good detective work, there is sometimes no substitute...