Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white man's world, stirred by his literature (the Bible, Rousseau, Jefferson) but stunned by the gap between precept and practice, often shunned because of their color, impulsive and impatient, they are likely to become the dupes of Communism. Writing from South Africa recently, Michael Ardizzone, a British journalist, reported a conversation with his Negro office messenger-a grown man named Cigarette, who had managed to pass his Junior Certificate examination, roughly the equivalent of graduating from junior high school...
...stops and reverses over a 250-meter course-the Sunbeam-Talbot came a cropper. "There was a small knock in the motor," said Fitch ruefully. "We lost two seconds." By that slim margin, Fitch lost his chance to become the first U.S. winner of the race. The winner: Dutch Journalist and Veteran Competitor Maurice Gatsonides, 41, driving an English Ford Zephyr. Unfazed, Fitch grinned: "I'll be back next year...
Just Like Captions. Television and 36-year-old Carey Wilber seem made for each other. Though he has spent 17 years as a newsman and is still starry-eyed about the "romance of the fourth estate," he has never been more than a journey man journalist. He has written a few short stories, but has never been able to sell any. He started a historical novel ("It was about a sad sack in the War of the Roses"), but couldn't finish it. Yet almost everything he writes for TV is snapped up by eager producers. It takes...
Died. Thomas Sugrue, 45, journalist and author (There Is a River, Starling of the White House), who was stricken by a rare form of arthritis in 1937, spent the rest of his life in the painful confines of a wheelchair; of complications following a bone operation; in Manhattan. His controversial 1952 book, A Catholic Speaks His Mind, was a biting criticism of U.S. Catholicism ("booming, aggressive, materialistic, socially ambitious, and inclined to use its membership as a paranoid pressure group...
...while, life in the Krogh empire is delightfully plush. Anthony becomes Krogh's bodyguard, teaches his joyless boss how to relax, begins an affair on the side with an English lady tourist, and picks up extra change by funneling news about Krogh to a journalist. But when Anthony discovers that Krogh is swindling half the world, he rebels: he is not "unscrupulous enough to be successful." Suddenly dangerous, Anthony is casually destroyed by one of Krogh's assistants...