Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Man. When the Warrens moved to Sacramento, the Governor's Mansion (once the boyhood home of the late great muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens) was an ugly, grey, 70-year-old frame relic. Part of the roof had toppled off, the rococo porches had rotted, plaster had fallen from the ceilings. One Governor after another had boarded off sections of the 20-room house...
Robert L. Duffus, of the New York Times editorial staff, is a highly competent journalist and a philosophical anarchist with an acute sympathy for the underdog. He is also a living refutation of the theory that the New York Times can make no use of a journalist who is left of center...
...Cattell was most active as an organizer and journalist. He founded the American Psychological Association, the American Association of University Professors, the Psychological Corp. (tests and polls), at one time or other headed many other professional scientific groups, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...syndicated film columnist. Erskine Johnson, Robbin Coons and Lolly's famed rival Hedda Hopper, all probably outcirculate her. But she gets a minimum 2,000 fan letters a week, and in lush seasons 5,000. Her batting average on scoops is .800, a record which no other journalist living or dead has remotely approached. Her appetite for gossip is insatiable, her power through gossip imperial...
Arvid Fredborg is a young Swedish journalist who represented Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet in Berlin from February 1941, to the end of May 1943. Behind the Steel Wall was written from private notes just after the author had quit the Third Reich following a series of discreet warnings from his friends. His book, in easy, gossipy pages, presents the most up-to-date picture of Germany from within. It is the picture of a war machine that is being run without provision for maintenance. It is coughing and bucking, and a couple of broken pistons are gouging into...