Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue-green eyes. His stockbroker's black business suit sat strangely on him because he looked like a pirate chief and walked with the rolling sway of a seaman. He had spent part of his childhood in Peru (where his mother took him to visit relatives after his journalist father died). In his teens, Paul ran away to sea and put in six years before the mast. "Oh, I was a great rascal!" he would later say, "a remarkable liar." In the early years of marriage, painting was one of several Gauguin hobbies; he also fenced and played billiards...
...20th century, journalism is increasingly the path to politics, as the law was in the 19th. The century's most famous journalist-politicians are Clemenceau, Churchill, Lenin and Mussolini. Some others: Italy's Alcide de Gasperi, Texas' Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ohio's Warren Harding, Brazil's President Café Filho, Britain's Richard Grossman, Illinois' Frank Knox, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Blair Moody, Washington state's Warren Magnuson, South Dakota's Francis Case, Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, Idaho's Henry Dworshak, Louisiana's Edward Hebert...
...when they had finished Morse decided he had been much too kind, docked Neuberger an additional ten points. Then, in a long conference, Morse urged Neuberger to drop the law and take up journalism. When the young man hesitated, Morse telephoned his father. "This boy's a fine journalist," he said, "but he's no lawyer and I doubt whether he ever can be. At any rate I haven't got time to try to make him one." Dick Neuberger switched to journalism...
Neuberger spent his campaign funds wisely. Instead of using up a lot of money on a few half-hour TV shows, as Cordon did, Neuberger bought hundreds of one-minute radio spots, which poured from the Oregon airwaves. Journalist Neuberger knew just how to deal with the press. Although all but three of Oregon's 21 dailies were committed to Cordon, Dick managed to get a remarkable amount of space. Every night his nimble fingers typed out releases on his twelve-year-old Royal portable for delivery just in time for deadlines to city rooms around the state...
...impending fall as a kind of political death and resurrection leading to the breakup of the old parties and Mendés' return as the leader of a "New Left." Beating the drums loudest for the New Left is Mendés' brilliant young disciple, Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, whose weekly L'Express provides a forum for Mendés' dedicated strategists. Last week L'Express proudly welcomed a distinguished new recruit to the New Left's ranks: Novelist Andre Malraux...