Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently young Pierre Merindol, a freelance journalist, thought he would have some fun with Fèvre, get some publicity into the bargain. In the men's magazine Adam he described him as an "homme déshydrate" (a dehydrated fogy),* and got some friends to show the article to Fèvre. Fèvre's Bonapartist pride was stung...
...Journalist Thackrey was executive editor of the New York Post when he married his boss, Publisher Dorothy Backer, in 1943. Four years later, Theodore Olin Thackrey became co-editor, and with Co-Editor Dorothy Thackrey he ran the Post Home News. But the husband & wife team didn't get along very well. During the election, when Ted was for Wallace and Dolly for Dewey, they quarreled publicly in the Post, and privately in their penthouse apartment. The argument did not end with the election, and in January Dolly Thackrey had a heart-to-heart talk with her husband...
Streit, a journalist at Geneva in the days of the League of Nations, has long been crusading for a "more effective form" of international organization. His book, "Union Now," advocates a union of the democratic nations, with control over foreign policy, currency, international trade, and military matters delegated to a federal union...
Gregory Staktapoulos, accused of the slaying of CBS correspondent George Polk, testified yesterday at the second session of the trial of Polk's alleged murderers that the journalist was shot to death in a rowboat in Salonika Bay at midnight...
...Under his arm, Shostakovich carried a large bundle of phonograph records. He was, he said, "glad to be returning home." Novelist Piotr Pavlenko told a Polish-speaking cop: "America is a wonderful country, a strong country. And it has one of the finest police forces in the world." Czech Journalist Jiri Hronek, however, said that "I wouldn't live in this country even if I were invited." Soviet Film Director Sergei A. Gerasimov, asked how he liked the U.S., replied: "We have hotels in Moscow just as good as the Waldorf-but not as tall...