Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lifelong apologist for Soviet Russia, Nebraska-born Journalist Anna Louise Strong, 69. has not always found the party line easy to follow. On one stay in Russia, where she lived for years, she tried to join the Russian Communist Party, was turned down as a "sentimental bourgeois." The Russians, however, were tolerant enough to let her start the first English-language Soviet newspaper, the Moscow News. Then, in 1949, without explanation or warning, she was arrested in Moscow and charged with being "incriminated in espionage and subversive activities in the Soviet Union." Bewildered but still submissive to the will...
...again, she replied confidently: "From the amount of scandal it caused through the rest of the world, I don't think they will do that again." Was she angry about the arrest? Oh no, she answered. "Injustices occur everywhere." If the State Department grants her a passport, said Journalist Strong, she expects to visit Red China as well as Russia...
...Eastern tour in behalf of overseas blind, Helen Keller, an indomitable 74, arrived in Burma, was promptly introduced to Premier U Nu. She explored his face with her sensitive hands, pronounced him "a philosopher and a poet." Later, meeting reporters in Rangoon, Helen Keller was asked by Roving Journalist Vincent (Rage of the Soul) Sheean how she felt about one of Playwright George Bernard Shaw's loftier dicta, which, as Sheean recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said. It was at a meeting...
...years the vision of good pay, independence, no office hours, etc., has attracted thousands of writers and would-be writers to freelancing. Last week, in one day, Satevepost alone received close to 300 manuscripts "over the transom," i.e., unsolicited. Self-help magazines-Writer's Digest, Author and Journalist, etc.-bolster the dream with enticing ads: "No More Rejection Slips," or "Enjoy Fame and Fortune as a Writer." Reality v. Dream. Actually, the reality is much less enticing than the dream. Of the thousands who have tried free-lancing magazine articles, only about 70 or 80 in the U.S. earn...
...accordance with the will of George Ledlie '84, a journalist, the University will henceforth award $1000 every two years to the individual at Harvard who, in the University's judgement, "has by research, discovered or otherwise made the most valuable contribution to science, or in any way for the benefit of mankind...