Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to fight the religious trend, or the allegation of a religious trend, do it with better reporting; or do it, even, with a good, wholesome iconoclasm, a keener, truer satire with real humor. The tradition of Mencken doesn't need to die; but Mencken was a good journalist as well as a sharp satirist. Edward Berckman
Challenging Eisenhower's patience, a journalist dared ask him a provocative question re helicopters and golf. The inquisitor got a cold but polite answer. It would be good to prevent that fellow from participating in these press conferences-at least to persuade him to stop asking questions below the level of dignified journalism...
Died. Alice Rohe, 81, veteran spinster journalist and magazine writer, the first woman to head a foreign news bureau (United Press in Rome, 1914), the first woman (1927) to interview Mussolini after his rise to power; in Manhattan...
...children's book by Mrs. Margaret C. Hubbard, house mother of Holmes Hall, will be published Monday. The book, Boss Chombale, is based on Mrs. Hubbard's nine years of personal experience in Africa as a U.S. diplomat, a journalist, and a captor of wild animals, and is intended for children from...
Charles Christian Wertenbaker was a member of one of Virginia's grand old families, an able journalist (on and off from 1931 to 1948 with FORTUNE, LIFE and TIME), an occasional novelist (To My Father, The Death of Kings), a big man with a strong appetite for good living. This is his widow's story from the time he learned, in the fall of 1954, that he had cancer of the lower bowel until, less than four months later, he committed suicide, at 53, by slashing his wrists with a razor handed to him by his wife...