Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Often the only 'generalization' the professor permits himself is the textbook he writes in the field of his work." Outside his one limited specialty, "life is treated superficially. The professor of social science, for example, is not very likely to have as balanced an intellect as a top-flight journalist, and it is usually considered poor taste, inside the academies, to write a book outside of one's own field...
...this creature, regarded even by his best friends as childlike, reach the eminence of criminality that had him described at N¨urnberg as one whose "guilt is unique in its enormity?" Journalist Willi Frischauer, a Viennese who went to Britain as a foreign correspondent in 1935 and has lived there ever since, gives some of the answers in an admirable, well-documented biography. Not only has Frischauer pondered Goering's career from womb to ash can; he has also won the confidence of such key figures as Goering's widow, his valet and some of his military...
Author Bolitho, a New Zealand-born journalist, should be as familiar with his subject as any living writer. A Century of British Monarchy is his twelfth book on the members of the House of Windsor...
When his tutor died of a heart attack in 1946, the lonely King sought other companions. His choices were strange. One was a short, baldheaded Lebanese journalist named Kareem Tabet, who is now the King's press counselor and confidant, has been described as Egypt's Harry Vaughan. Another of the King's favorites is a little Italian named Pulley Bey, a former palace barber and electrician whom (so the story goes) Farouk used to follow around when he was a child, watching with fascination as he screwed in light bulbs. Now he is a combination court...
...broadcasts, winnowing the news from their informers. In turn, the informers pass the bulletin into Czechoslovakia where each copy, read behind locked doors, passes through scores of hands. As a result, when nine Czech airmen flew a passenger-filled airliner out of Prague in a sensational escape, a girl journalist aboard saw that Josten got the first full story. It was to Josten that Czechoslovakia's world-champion ice-skater, Aja Vrzanova, first reported that she did not intend to go home from her exhibition tour. Josten has become a favorite target of Communist radio blasts, but the more...