Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publisher and columnist of the Boston Post, Financial Juggler and Amateur Journalist John Fox last year predicted a major depression in the U.S. The prediction proved spectacularly wrong for everyone but the Post. Since his forecast, his circulation has slumped. A fortnight ago he fired 58 Postmen for economy. Morale has been further damaged by the fact that many a staffer had invested in Fox's Keta Gas & Oil Corp. In the last year the stock has dropped from 15 to 3½. Even Fox himself shows signs of depression about his first erratic excursion into journalism. Last week...
...through school and taken a degree in jurisprudence with the highest honors. A onetime Socialist newspaperman and then a law professor, he emerged as a Communist lawyer after Mussolini's downfall, much honored for his anti-Fascist record. It was he who acted as defense counsel for the journalist who first published the allegation that Wilma Montesi had been murdered. At that time Giuseppe Sotgiu indignantly declaimed: "This Montesi case stigmatizes a whole putrid and corrupted society, a privileged class which is perverse and needs replacing by a healthy workers' society...
Married. Eve Denise Curie, 49, French journalist, lecturer and author (most notably of Madame Curie, bestselling biography of her famed scientist mother, Marie Curie), postwar (1945-49) publisher of the influential anti-Communist French daily Paris Presse, sister of Communist Party-lining, Nobel-Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Mme. Irene Joliot-Curie; and Henry Richardson Labouisse, 50, United Nations official; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...Saigon, some of the French are nonchalant. "Of course the whole country is gone," said a French journalist. Others are bitter. "These people have no appreciation, no understanding of all we have done for them," said a Frenchwoman on a terrace, sipping lemonade. Commissioner General Paul Ely is faithfully working with the U.S. to strengthen South Viet Nam, but others are not. "They treat Indo-China," complained an American, "like a Frenchman treats a mistress in whom he's losing interest. He doesn't want her for himself, but he gets sore if anyone else shows interest...
...This new trend in journalism is a happy one, but one which taxes the training, experience and learning of the journalist even more than the pressure of time and space do already . . . Let us put more energy in these stories. Whether once published it is called comment, footnote, opinion or interpretation does not matter. They are all different names for the same thing: clear guidance in the fast traffic of world events...