Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 59, sometime journalist, lecturer and socialite; and Ann Bernadette Needham, 25, his secretary; he for the sixth time, she for the first; in Reno...
When Nkrumah returned last month from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in London, he said: "Henceforth we shall see who is ruling this country." Two weeks later, his government ordered the deportation of three men who displeased Nkrumah. One was Nkrumah's erstwhile idolatrous biographer, Journalist Bankole Timothy, who had been taking jabs at the Premier in Accra's British-owned Daily Graphic. Since Timothy was born in Sierra Leone, it was possible to expel him. The Minister of Information refused to specify the charges against the other two, Ashanti leaders of the Moslem Association Party, "since...
...Other journalists before Altrincham had said harsher things about reigning royalty, but coming from a member of the peerage -well. In point of fact, Lord Altrincham is no more to the manner born than Earl Attlee or dozens of other latter-day lords in Britain's Upper House. His father, a journalist and longtime civil servant, did not get his barony until 1945, ten years before his death. His son (Eton, the Guards) is an earnest and articulate advocate of what he calls the New Toryism...
Jacek Wozniakowski, a Polish journalist and university lecturer, discussed recent changes in the life of his country since the Poznam Riots of October...
Died. Curzio Malaparte (real name: Kurt Suckert), 59, Italian writer (Kaputt, The Skin), polemical journalist and unorthodox cinema writer-director-producer (Forbidden Christ, called in the U.S. Strange Deception); of lung cancer; in Rome. Born in Tuscany of a German father, Italian mother, Malaparte was called Fascism's "strongest pen" during the '203, turned hostile to the regime and was interned (1933-38), most recently accepted Italian Communist financing of a trip this spring to China, but on his return, seriously ill, was baptized a Roman Catholic. Despite his erratic politics, his more than two dozen books, which...