Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James B. Reston. journalist, chief Washington correspondent, New York Times Litt.D...
...question now," said one Italian journalist at week's end, "is how much does everybody want?" At least a month of close bargaining among Sicily's eight parties lies ahead. Milazzo, the man with the balance of power, would scarcely be content with anything less than leadership of Sicily's next coalition government...
...Britain's peppery Lord Beaverbrook put up at Fredericton's Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, spent hours right next door in the city's Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, one of his many gifts to the province. Facing the local press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday edition in one sitting, through and through, every...
...role of the capital press corps is that of the participant in government affairs and decisions rather than that of the sideline recorder. Even in such inevitable judgments as what part of a Senator's speech is "news" and what part isn't, the journalist moulds the shape of the headlines and moulds the mind of his reader. By covering one speech instead of another, by putting words in the President's mouth at press conferences, by taking one side of an inter-departmental fight from a "source" and not trying to get the other side, a reporter forms...
Died. Rex Smith, 58, world-roving, hard-living journalist and author; onetime (1937-41) editor of Newsweek, where he revamped editorial policy, helped push circulation from 190,000 to 450,000; editor of the Chicago Sun (1941-42); Vice President of American Airlines in charge of Public Relations (1946-58); of cancer; in Manhattan...