Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is nothing worse," contended Ohio's James Middleton Cox, "than an invertebrate publisher." Stocky, round-faced Jim Cox was one of the higher vertebrates in a generation of publishers that included such well-spined warriors as William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and Colonel Robert McCormick. As a journalist, he practiced his preachment that newspapers "should tell the truth as only intellectual honesty can discern the truth." As a politician, Democrat Cox was also notable for intellectual honesty. And he almost achieved the classic American cycle: born on a log-cabin farm, he got to be a Congressman...
...eyes of the Moscow party hierarchy this did not matter so much because his victims had not been members of their families, but peasants and Ukrainians. Besides, he had a quality that could be put to great use at this moment. During World War II a Communist journalist, who had seen him scrambling over Kiev's rubble-filled Kreshchatik Street ahead of his entourage of generals and party officials, talking fast with his hands to everybody he met, put the quality in a few words: "He was the first Soviet leader I had ever seen walking among the people...
...President announced his nation's determination to cling to rebellious Algeria. It was phrased as a warning to Algerian nationalists, and France's allies abroad, but it was an appeal to dissident Frenchmen-including such leading intellectuals as Sorbonne Professor Raymond Aron (TIME, July 1), Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Europeanist Andre Philip-who have grown tired of the expensive hopelessness of the struggle in Algeria...
...More than Fantasy. Journalist Fleming, who, as Strix, writes a weekly essay for the Spectator, has composed a tragicomic record, a record in which the farcical is merely punctuation. If it is often the comic more than the serious that comes through, it is in part because of his own ingrown habit of mocking at perils-including his own-and, more important, because the world already knows well the sorrows and dangers and heroics that went into Great Britain's rise from disaster to victory, and needs no somber reiteration of them. Better, perhaps, to be able to smile...
...NOSTALGIA FOR CAMELS, by Christopher Rand (279 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.75), offers still another view of Asia, not panoramic but miniaturist, with the focus on individual Asians. Unpretentious U.S. Journalist Christopher Rand, an old Asia hand, snaps some memorable candids of the famed and humble, ranging from Vinoba Bhave, India's post-Gandhi Gandhi (TIME, May 11, 1953), to Mr. Fu, a Hong Kong opium connoisseur with a palate as refined as that of the most finicky Western vinophile. There is a weatherbeaten Malayan old man of the sea who knows the language of the fish (sharks...