Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knowledge of the countries and things they write about-but not the Managing Editor. He's stuck. Among a host of other duties, he has to edit every piece of copy that goes into TIME each week (he has, he says, a basilisk's eye complicated by journalist's cataract). So it was good news to me that T. S. Matthews had gotten away for a week's trip by chartered plane to the Pacific Coast and back...
llya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist (but a deplorer, he says, of censorship) who has been trying on the U.S. for size, turned his professional attention to Canada, discovered the same deplorable state of affairs there. "In two days in Canada," he reported in Toronto, "I have seen the good and the bad-the good is your people, and bad are your newspaper articles...
Hungarian-born George Tabori, 32, is almost unknown as a novelist. Educated in Germany, trained as a journalist in the Balkans and the Middle East, he now lives in England, has worked for the BBC since 1943. Companions of the Left Hand,* his second novel (the first: Beneath the Stone, 1945), is a sardonic political parable, overwritten in spots, preachy in others, but crafty, speculative and Koestler-like in its ambiguities and undertones...
...American-Soviet Music Society gave visiting Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg five earthy old U.S. ballads for Soviet composers to work from. Ehrenburg promised five Russian-written chamber music pieces based on the songs, in time for U.S. performance next season. He also agreed to send five old Russian folk songs for U.S. composers to put in new bottles...
...Freeman-Mitford is eldest (42) and perhaps least strange of the six daughters of David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, second Baron Redesdale. She is the wife of the Hon. Peter Murray Rennell Rodd, who is an ex-lieutenant colonel in the Welsh Guards, a Sahara explorer, and a leftist journalist. Nancy, who now lives in Paris writing the English versions of Anglo-French movies, is politically pinkish, and takes a dim view of her sisters, who include: 1) Unity, famed Hitler-loving Wagnerian blonde; 2) Diana, wife of Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley (she spent most of World...