Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers of The Little World of Don Camilla, which tells of a gentle Italian priest's struggles with ungentle Communists, might picture the author as an amiable, chuckly type who would never have a hard word for anybody except Reds. Actually, Author-Journalist Giovanni Guareschi, 45, is a fierce monarchist, with a fierce mustache and a fierce tongue. Guareschi edits the brilliant satirical weekly, Candido, which pillories politicians of the center as well as those of the left. Three years ago, a Candido cartoon depicted President Einaudi (some of whose income is derived from vineyards) reviewing a troop...
When the trial began in Milan, Journalist Guareschi turned out to have a very poor case. He could not produce the purported original of the letter (it was in the hands of a shadowy, last-ditch Fascist living in Switzerland, who has had little luck in many attempts to peddle such letters to Italian journalists) De Gasperi's lawyers flourished a communication from Viscount Alexander, the Allies' wartime commander in Italy, who said "all that is written in the alleged letter does not agree with what I remember." They also produced a communication from the supposed recipient, Lieut...
...case against Lord Kemsley's Sunday Times* (circ. 531,566) after the paper settled a libel suit before trial and printed an apology for an article she had written. The Sunday Times apology, she charged, sold her "down the river" by implying that she was an "irresponsible journalist prepared to write articles recklessly...
Jean Heather Marris Murray, daughter of a Scottish emigrant father and a South African mother, was born in Pretoria. An Oxford scholarship took her to England, where she worked as a free-lance journalist throughout World War II. The Fire-Raisers is her first novel but is written with a skill and confidence that make it close to the most impressive story yet about the South Africa of Malanism and apartheid...
...American correspondent remarks: "But the military war can be won, the way any war can be won, if you are willing to pay the cost." A British correspondent interrupts: "The way you did in Korea?" The American does not answer and the French journalist continues: "You demand, everyone demands, history demands that we fight on out here. But there is something about Asian wars these days. They cannot be won in the old ways. You cannot win unpopular wars. We are up against something...