Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weak as his life drive, this strange combination paves the road to the lower depths. Yozo has an affair with a waitress, but fluffs his end of their suicide pact. Scrabbling for a living as a second-rate cartoonist, he is kept, for a time, by a woman journalist. To keep himself in cheap gin, the cartoonist sinks to pornography. Toward novel's end, Yozo is even ready to make love to a monstrously crippled female druggist in return for morphine...
...relief of Olivia Mary Galante," read the bill stuffed in the congressional hopper by Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Francis E. Walter. The proposal: let Tokyo-born Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, wife of Paris Journalist Pierre Galante, keep her U.S. citizenship without spending at least 18 months of every five years in the U.S., as must all naturalized Americans. No movie buff, Congressman Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Act, who has kept a flinty eye on the foreign-born, seemed sure of Olivia's loyalty: "She is a lovely person, a very good American. She made...
Though it summons up the fictional nightmares of a Kafka or a Koestler, this episode is a matter of cold-sweat fact. It was the first session in an ordeal by torture undergone by French Communist Journalist Henri Alleg, 37, at an "interrogation" center at El Biar, in suburban Algiers, during June and July 1957. His torturers: paratroopers of the French army's 10th Division-later rebels against the Republic-to whom the use of torture has apparently come to be regarded as a "necessary" weapon against the Algerian nationalists...
...Anne Frank) Strasberg, 20, daughter of Actors' Studio Director Lee Strasberg, has bubbled quickly to the top, co-stars on film with Henry Fonda in Stage Struck, on Broadway with Helen Hayes in Time Remembered. ¶ James MacArthur, 20, son of Helen Hayes and the late Playwright-Journalist Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, entered Hollywood as The Young Stranger, did so well that Walt Disney signed him for The Light in the Forest and the upcoming Banner in the Sky. ¶ Warner Le Roy, 22, son of Veteran Producer-Director Mervyn (Random Harvest, Quo Vadis) Le Roy, last year...
...Vienna, it was a familiar story. A man had rushed in to say that he was being threatened by agents of the dreaded Hungarian AVH. The officer calmly noted down the answers to his questions. Name? Dr. Tamas Pasztor. Age? Forty-six. Status? Hungarian refugee. Profession? Formerly a journalist in Budapest. Married? Yes, to an American woman now in New York trying to expedite Pasztor's entry into...