Word: journalists
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...circ. 250,095), Bob Collins was a crusading young newsman who never let go of a story until he got official action. Example: after the war, he wrote two long series exposing Army waste in Georgia that resulted in two congressional investigations, got the practices stopped. Six months ago, Journalist Collins, 34, got a new job as Journal editorial writer and columnist. Instead of retiring into an ivory tower, he went right on crusading, though often in such minor-and popular -causes as the lack of courtesy among bus drivers. This spring, Bob Collins turned his fire on a bigger...
...plug lobby is the U.N.'s Mogens Skot-Hansen, a hustling Danish moviemaker, who persuaded a producer to make Dorothy McGuire a U.N. translator in Mister 880 ("She is a nice good girl and gives us a good name"). Thanks to his efforts, Bing Crosby, playing a journalist in the forthcoming Here Comes the Groom, will be shown at work on a story about U.N. relief work; Joseph Cotten, cast as a doctor in Peking Express, will be working for the U.N.'s World Health Organization; in The Day the Earth Stood Still, a visitor from another planet...
Another junior, a prominent Yale journalist, was less resolute. He had been a public opponent of the society system, but when his moment came he contentedly trotted off at the heels of a Bones agent...
...vocation of Chicago's Paul Hutchinson to follow and analyze the course of U.S. Protestantism. Longtime journalist, ordained minister and author (The New Leviathan), he is editor of the Christian Century, has been a member of the Century's staff for over 26 years. In the current issue of the quarterly Religion in Life, 60-year-old Methodist Hutchinson takes a sharp look at the course of U.S. Protestantism during the past half-century. What he finds may point to the future as significantly as it does to the past...
...critic for the Nation, Clement Greenberg feels he still has "a certain real stake" in the magazine's wellbeing. Recently, Greenberg decided that the weekly's well-being was not being furthered by its foreign policy and its foreign editor, J. Alvarez del Vayo, veteran journalist and for a time (21 months) foreign minister in Spain's Loyalist government. To the Nation's editors, Greenberg sent a 1,200-word letter charging that Del Vayo's column "invariably parallels that of Soviet propaganda." Editor-Publisher Freda Kirchwey refused to print the letter. Her explanation...