Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What keeps most "universal" languages from becoming universally popular is their tongue-twisting pronunciation. Almost anybody can learn to read or write them. Working on this principle, a 51-year-old Dutch journalist named Karel J. A. Janson has devised a simplified written language called Picto which can be mastered, he says, by even a slow student in four weeks. It looks like nothing so much as the tablecloth doodlings of a restive banquet audience...
...Dmitry Shepilov held the closest thing yet to a Western-style press conference. Instead of the usual Kremlin evasiveness, even at such informal occasions, Shepilov talked frankly with correspondents, did his best to answer serious questions. ILx-Pravda Editor Shepilov, who likes to boast that "I'm a journalist myself," also had another change of heart. After recently bitterly criticizing the U.S. press (it ought to be muzzled), he was asked if he had any complaints this time. Smiled Shepilov: "No. None whatsoever...
...Half of It. The reader who suspects that all this has been told before will be right. Two years ago Honor Tracy, then a 38-year-old journalist on assignment for the Sunday Times of London, made a pointed little pen sketch of the village of Doneraile in County Cork and its 82-year-old priest, Canon Maurice O'Connell, who was then raising funds to build himself a new house. Miss Tracy's story was too pointed for the old canon, who sued the newspaper, which settled out of court with an apology. Journalist Tracy (who, like...
Lady Sings the Blues has the tone of truth. Whether it is Singer Holiday's own style or Journalist-Friend William Dufty's professional hand, the book's deadpan manner is a little chilling. No matter how it is told, hers is a chilling story. Billie sings a sad, sad song...
Protest of 100. Again the press protested. More than 100 editors and re- porters signed a protest denouncing the government for making a criminal offense of "the free exercise of the functions of a journalist." At week's end, with Claude Gerard still in the general women's prison of Paris, the government let it be known unofficially that she would not be sent to Algeria for trial. It appeared that Newshen Gerard would soon be free on the same provisional basis as Barrat, but the government still plainly held the threat of jail over any correspondent...