Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON is sponsoring the talk which is free and open to the public. Malia is the first foreigner not a diplomat or journalist, who has spent as long as five months in the Soviet Union. His talk this evening will be his only extended public discussion of his Russian tour...
...Quiet American, he has translated his journalist's impressions into one of his novelistic moral conundrums. The attempt of the U.S. to find what he calls a "Third Force" between French colonialism and military Communism, is personified in Alden Pyle, member of a U.S. economic mission. He is the "quiet American"-a Harvard man, young, innocent, good, humorless, a Unitarian. He speaks in the hortatory Emily Post style which all British novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians. He eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous...
...section Driberg devoted to some of the old man's endearing qualities. One of the Beaver's newsmen urgently needed ?1,000, the biographer recounted. He asked Beaverbrook if he could borrow the sum and repay it out of salary. Next day the general manager summoned the journalist and told him that there was a strict office rule against such advances. "But," he added, "Lord Beaverbrook has instructed me to make you a free gift of ?1,000. Here is a check." Biographer Driberg praised this act of kindness for the unidentified newsman. Footnoted the Beaver dryly...
These mystifying words fascinate the book's narrator, an adventure-hungry journalist who uncovers the story behind the messages. He learns about the sinking of a refugee-crammed ship out of Singapore in 1942. Four of the ship's survivors lived 14 weeks on a raft; they knew each other only by nicknames. One, "Biscuit," was an Irish bartender; another, "Bulldog," a sahib type. "Number Four" was the ship's purser, a one-legged mulatto. "Sea-Wyf" (mermaid) was a handsome young woman of mystery, and much of the story concerns her saintly attempts to impose decency...
...Prime Minister Eden produced the Washington Declaration (see next page), politically sophisticated Britons assumed that the text was the work of moralizing Americans. A British Foreign Office official read it. and explained that the declaration was addressed to Asians and Africans: "A simple reminder for simple-minded people." Journalist Randolph Churchill called it "pompous...