Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Economic and Social Council, in session in Chile, for not taking up the question of La Prensa. (The New York World-Telegram & Sun told the pussyfooting council to "get lost.") The Scripps-Howard Washington News offered its columns to La Prensa's editors or to any South American journalist who wanted to state La Prensa's case-a vantage point for argument during the current conference of Foreign Ministers of the American republics (see HEMISPHERE) in Washington. Syndicated Columnist David Lawrence wanted U.N. members to withdraw ambassadors from Buenos Aires. But it was the Chicago Tribune which reminded...
...this time. With his usual sound grasp of regional realities, he wraps his story around the "treason" trial of a liberal politician. Why have the Reds gone after Yordan Delt-chev in the first place? And why have they thrown such fantastic charges at him? Ambler thrusts his British journalist hero, Foster, into the thick of things to ask those questions, then leads him a chase to the answers. Foster trips over a corpse almost as soon as he begins to poke around...
This book was banned throughout the country for its frank treatment of the environmental forces which Dreiser, as an unsuccessful and errant journalist, observed about him. But Matthiessen points out that the writer, if anything, "somewhat softened the actuality" of the forces which shape the lives of Carrie Meeber and Hurstwood. With the tragic account of the latter figure, he adds, Dreiser "began his chief contribution to American literature...
What a commentary upon the American way of life, that this smart-aleck journalist can "make or break" (fortunately, only in Chicago) men & women of genius...
...British journalist just returned from Peking reported: "The war in Korea . . . is already somewhat of a surprise to the Chinese." Hospitals in Manchuria, he added, could not take care of the great number of casualties. Mao Tse-tung and other Red Chinese strategists, who like to read the maxims of Sun-tzu, the ancient (500 B.C.) Chinese Clausewitz, now found themselves up against a field strategy similar to the one that had helped bring down Europe's great 19th Century aggressor...