Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John LaFarge, S.J. has worked out for himself the well-balanced combination of faith and reason which St. Thomas Aquinas made the Roman Catholic ideal. He holds deep religious and social convictions but has seldom been known to raise his voice in argument. As a religious journalist, in a field overripe with invective, he has kept his arguments lean, prudent and confidently patient. As he once wrote, "I am not so much trying to persuade people to walk on a certain road, as I am to show them the road that I am convinced they are sooner or later going...
...full-time journalist, Father La-Farge became an almost full-time spokesman for Negro rights. In 1934 he was a leader in founding the first Catholic Interracial Council in the U.S. In 1942 he was the only white speaker at the Madison Square Garden rally launching the drive for the Fair Employment Practices Commission. He has shown a constant concern for the progress of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters...
...speakers will be Thurgood Marshall, Special Counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Marion A. Wright, President of the Southern Regional Council, and journalist A. G. Ivey, a Nieman Fellow at the University. The moderator for the forum will be Assistant Professor William Covington Hardee of the Harvard Law School...
...preaching has overflowed from the pulpit into the press; one Christmas the London Evening Standard set his version of the Gospel story in place of an editorial. Knox eyes Scripture with the news sense of a journalist: its characters are present in the world today. This vivid gift appears best in his small masterpiece, The Rich Young Man, the idea of which he had from a monk himself under a rule of silence. It relates how the man who went sadly away, "for he had great possessions," gambled his fortune and took to crime, ending as the Penitent Thief...
...operations boss, Mike Straight picked fortyish, Alabama-born Helen Fuller. Managing Editor Fuller, little known as a journalist, went to Washington in the early days of the New Deal, and worked for the Justice Department and National Youth Administration. After Straight took over the magazine in 1940, she joined its Washington bureau...