Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surely a record to cause all other publishers to glower greenly at the Publishers S. As one critic put it, the vogue of the book lies in the fact that Willkie decided to write it himself, instead of employing a "ghost" writer. Mr. Willkie writes easily; he has a journalist's eye for the significant details of a situation, the image that crystallizes and reinforces impression and opinion alike. Most important of all, Mr. Willkie has a message--a message about which he is infinitely earnest, a message meaningful...
...Tribune's latest contribution to post-war planning has been the redoubtable McCormick (shades of Ely!) Plan, which proposes an Anglo-American Union that would give the British Empire one-sixth the votes given the U. S. and would reduce England to the position of North Dakota. The Great Journalist thinks the Britons too decrepit to resist anyway...
...past decade, have begun to have kinds of influence and even of authority that used to belong to statesmen alone. Under tyranny they may indeed redouble the frauds of tyranny, as Goebbels did in Germany. But under democracy they may with courage divulge the truths of democracy. A journalist nurtured in an honest tradition has been the wartime Prime Minister of Britain. And in a long view of the matter, it was a victory in itself for American propaganda that Elmer Davis-who patently dislikes propaganda-was made head of the U.S. Office of War Information...
What makes him a three-letter man is that, besides all his knowledge of both classical and popular music, Sargeant is also a journalist. He worked for three years on New York newspapers, for a year as Music Editor of International News Service. He has contributed to The Saturday Evening Post, The Nation, The American Mercury, The Musical Quarterly and Theater Arts. And he is the author of the first authoritative analysis of America's own "musical language"-Jazz, Hot and Hybrid...
Flautist's Kampf. Among many prominent Pierians was first violin Nicholas Longworth (also member of the Porcellian Club), later Speaker of the House of Representatives. At the same time (1890) Liberal Journalist Oswald Garrison Villard (also member of the Deutscher Verein) played second fiddle...