Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howard's career as a crusading journalist was reviewed on tape by ex-President Herbert Hoover. "You have a unique position among crusaders," said Hoover...
Burdett blamed the Russians for instigating the murder shortly afterward of his first wife, Lea Schiavi, an anti-Fascist Italian journalist, while visiting the Soviet-occupied Iranian province of Azerbaijan. Kurdish gunmen stopped her car, singled her out and shot her. "She knew too much," said Burdett...
This is a book for all those who, like Thomas Jefferson, think of France as every man's second country. A Swiss journalist who has lived for ten years in Paris, Herbert Luethy, 37, writes about France with caustically earnest and wide-ranging impartiality, a depth of historical per spective, and a total absence of lecturing, hectoring or sentimentalizing. Luethy calls his book "an attempt to draw up an inventory of what has survived, and also of what has become ossified, in the France of the present day." Though his portentous paradoxes are far from glib, they face...
After a federal jury in Manhattan awarded Journalist Quentin Reynolds $175,001 in a libel suit against Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Hearst lawyers took their case to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Their argument: what Pegler had written about Reynolds (TIME, May 24, 1954, et seq.) was "innocuous and susceptible of innocent and harmless interpretations...
...measured scientifically so he will continue to be a round peg in a round hole. For example, a test will undertake to show not only how good a scientist he might become, but also how likely he is to betray his country. If he wants to be a journalist, he can read a book on writing for "people who are just about average." He can rate his happiness on a Euphorimeter and check up on his psychological health by answering questions: "Are you plastic? Are you always able to fit in?" Author Whitman is a Nova Scotia-born magazine writer...