Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Haulot, Belgian poet-journalist: "The hell with...
...people she wanted to be liked by, and often unpopular with the rest. Friend of writers and critics like Cyril (Enemies of Promise) Connolly and Peter Quennell, able to talk to them in their own jargon, yet without convincing anyone of her profundity. As flip, smartly turned out professional journalist, got to know Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton (who lent her a cottage on his Wiltshire grounds). Although needing no introduction to high society, she was befriended by the Duff Coopers, Lord David Cecil and Lord Salisbury, good friend of Eden...
...People. "In every American-including the women-there is a journalist and a detective. The American wants to find out and he has at his disposal a method of investigation that is often annoying, usually very efficient, and in the end rather touching. For actually it is very good of him to be interested in the whole world...
...have been cover subjects: Lavrenty P. Beria, head of Russia's secret police; British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook; Scientist Irving Langmuir; Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin ; Pope Pius XII ; Philosopher Albert Schweitzer; Poet T. S. Eliot. Among those who have not : Indian Industrialist J. R. D. Tata; Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg; Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs; Argentine Physiologist Bernardo A. Houssay; blind Egyptian Scholar Taha Hussein...
When they bought the Telegraph in 1928. the Daily Mail's Lord Rothermere (brother of the titanic Northcliffe but no journalist himself) got worried. He poured millions into founding and promoting new provincial papers to fight Camrose and Kemsley. Camrose, whose formula for journalistic success is to "spend money and spend it boldly," opened his purse also. Finally, when a truce was declared, Camrose and his brother were...