Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moos's garage; that North had introduced him to a "John somebody" (who turned out later to be Jacob Golos); that Golos had introduced him to Miss Bentley. He had given her some information, but it was harmless stuff, not secret; he had thought Miss Bentley was a journalist...
Setting out to sweep all this away, Minister Díaz, a onetime journalist, earned himself a mocking nickname from the press: Lomberto el Terrible. Thundered Lomberto, undeterred: "If the criminal elements and the women victims they live off don't get out, I'll cut off their light and water, pack their furniture off to a city warehouse and jail any stragglers. We'll show them no mercy." His eviction tactics worked. By week's end, all but a corporal's guard of the women and their flashily dressed chulos (pimps) had pulled...
Time's founder and editor was Edmund Yates, a novelist and playwright who, like Dickens, Thackeray and other contemporary 19th Century literary figures, was also a working journalist. He founded Time in 1879. It was by no means a news magazine, nor was it departmentalized like our TIME, but it did print many articles on current affairs, along with poetry, serialized fiction and short stories. In its first six issues, for example, Time carried articles on the doings of Parliament, the state of the nation's defenses, profiles on Disraeli and George Sala, one of the first roving...
Most church architecture in the U.S., writes Journalist Georges Fradier, "may evoke an English cathedral, a Corinthian temple or a bathhouse, but the interior is always the same: that of a third-rate movie palace . . . Varnished benches present a comfortable resting place for faithful buttocks. A drawing-room organ emits sugared water. A pulpit . . . two or three pots of flowers, that is all the decoration. Some temples retain an altar, but this outmoded object serves only to support a still larger number of flower pots...
Fifty years ago this fall Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 entered Harvard College. While an undergraduate, FDR spent more time on the CRIMSON than in any other activity. Few persons would think of Roosevelt as a journalist; yet he worked on the CRIME for three and one-half years, becoming its managing editor and president. After he had become President of the United States he said, "It was on the CRIMSON that I received my first and last newspaper training. And I must say frankly that I remember my own adventures as an editor rather more clearly than...