Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winston Churchill stood at the House df Commons bar recently, having a drink with an old journalist friend. Asked Churchill: "What are they saying about me these days...
...take off for a month's junket through Russia, by sufferance of the Soviet government, Eleanor Roosevelt abruptly called off her expedition. Said she: "It would have been impossible for me to do an adequate reporting job . . . without the assistance of a trained magazine journalist or of a man who could speak and read the Russian language." Without stomach for "being at the complete mercy of [a Soviet] interpreter," Mrs. Roosevelt added: "I feel that the Soviet officials, in not granting a visa for a reporter to accompany me, are trying to force me to go to Russia...
...bullyboy in the paramilitary nationalist Freikorps, and as a poison-pen rightist journalist, Dertinger helped kill off the democratic Weimar Republic. When Hitler came in, he became an official in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, with a big picture of Von Ribbentrop on his desk. Then when the Russians arrived, Georg confided to a friend, "I will walk the tightrope over Communism as surely as I did over Naziism...
Bowers was U.S. Ambassador to Spain from 1933 to '39. Besides having had a ringside seat for the war, Bowers was an able journalist (he was an editorial writer for the old New York World) and is a historian of some fame (The Tragic Era, The Young Jefferson). Unfortunately, in this book he has thrown off the historian's mantle and kept on only the form-fitting B.V.D.s of the sentimental liberal...
Died. Poultney Bigelow, 98, wealthy, globetrotting author-journalist; after long illness; in Saugerties, N.Y. A lifelong crony of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, Author Bigelow was easily quoted on dictatorship, boating, war and nudism ("To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women"), once urged the U.S. to make F.D.R. President for life, and before Pearl Harbor, predicted Axis victory in World...