Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elson's only assistant at U.N. in The Bronx is Visson-but he has a very important function. Russian-born and a onetime European journalist, he has the job of seeing that we get the full drama and feel of the meeting. You have to hear the delegates speak and know what they are saying in their own tongues to catch the full flavor and sharpness of the debate. It also helps to be able to talk to them between sessions in their own languages...
...kind of journalism: 1) that news, to be adequately presented, has to be studied deeply before it can be written, and 2) that the pool of knowledge to which our reporters, writers, editors and researchers contribute, and from which they draw, is superior to the information that any single journalist can provide...
Preacher-Editor. Dr. Morrison is a fighting editor of the old school who has made the Christian Century the most vigorous and intelligent Protestant weekly in the U.S. Pastor Morrison (of the Disciples of Christ) became Journalist Morrison when he bought the Christian Century in 1908 and made it interdenominational. The Century's "editorial we" has stood for Morrison ever since. Says he of his job and his magazine: "As an editor I am still a preacher. It is a journal of opinion, not news...
This House Against This House is a pretentious title for Mr. Sheean's mixture as before: part tract, part treatise, part I-was-right-there testimony. The ingredients are not up to prewar quality. Journalist-Lecturer Sheean (he returned to civilian life late in 1944) opens with a long, rambling, Shesanesque introduction and concludes with a brief tailpiece in which he discusses world history from Versailles to San Francisco, poses the somber question of whether we are in for another war. His half-hopeful, half-baffled, wholly unstartling conclusion: no, if the U.S. and Russia can agree. He thinks...
Like many an editor of the old, hell-raising school, triple-chinned William Theodore Evjue is at his best when he has a mad on. As Wisconsin's loudest personal journalist, he lets his purple rages spill over the front page of the Madison Capital Times in roaring editorial torrents. He does not confine himself to print. The hired hands in his newsroom are inured to his thunderous invective...