Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divorced him in 1921 because he was about to have a child by another woman, Dora Winifred Black. His second wife, Dora Black, shared his view that people should "indulge in marital infidelity to preserve their homes." In 1933 she announced that she had had a child by British Journalist Griffin Barry. Two years later she divorced Earl Russell, charging him with adultery. Next year, at 64, Earl Russell married his former secretary, Patricia Helen Spence, who later bore him his fourth legitimate child...
Secretary MacDonald was not expected to have any trouble getting his bill through the House of Commons. Journalist H. N. Brailsford asked in the London News why all this discrimination in favor of the Indies' natives. "Let us not underestimate their gain. It comes to nearly a halfpenny for each of them through every week of the year - two fifths of a penny to be exact...
...Courier-Journal a fiery organ of Southern Democracy, Arthur Krock (onetime editorial manager of Marse Henry's paper) wrote in the New York Times: "Mr. Watterson was the last of the great personal editors. . . . His writings were more widely reprinted, quoted and heeded, than those of any other journalist; and his personality became a legend. . . ." For weeks the Courier-Journal had been in the throes of a mysterious upheaval, changing its makeup, trying out new editorial formulas, hiring new men (one was James Pope, managing editor of the Atlanta Journal for 15 years). Last week Bingham's Ethridge...
Individualist. One Swedish journalist who has stubbornly resisted regimentation by Nazi imperialists is Torgny Segerstedt, editor-owner of Göteborg's famed Handels-Och Sjöfartstidning (Trade and Shipping Gazette). So proud of its liberal tradition is the Gazette that it has been called Sweden's Manchester Guardian. Segerstedt's column, I Dag (Today), is masterful journalism. He has a rare faculty for clothing deadly sarcasm (about Hitler, Stalin, various native enemies of democracy) in words so innocent that even Minister Westman cannot dub them "offensive." Sample: "What cannot be hidden is the opinion...
...Table and the Supreme Court Justice), Owen Wister, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, President Theodore Roosevelt (the Franklin Roosevelts go Fly Club). Among its living members are Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr., U. S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, Journalist Joseph Alsop, and Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of whom all good Porkies prefer not to speak. The Pore is very much a family affair. Upon its roster, generation after generation, appear the same proud Boston names-Adams, Ames, Amory, Cabot, Gushing, etc. Some years ago three great...