Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Generation on Trial, by Alistair Cooke. A look at the trials of Alger Hiss, through the clear eyes of Journalist Cooke (TIME, Sept...
...since 1945 under their Individual Pictures trademark, plump, chipper Sidney Gilliat, 42, and quiet, precise Frank Launder, 43, have not yet been caught with a dud. Why do their pictures always make a tidy profit? Launder, a onetime repertory actor, and Gilliat, who thought he would be a journalist, point significantly to the fact that they have always been able to make pictures without too much front-office bossing...
...praise, such phrases only serve to rile up the Journal's boss, Harry J. Grant, choleric, determinedly vigilant chairman of the Journal's board of directors. Says Grant : "Damn it, I'm not anybody's Dutch Uncle. I'm just in the newspaper business . . ." Journalist Grant's devotion to the news had brought handsome returns. Last week Media Records reported that the evening Journal (circ. 325,039), led all U.S. newspapers in advertising linage for the first eight months of 1950. Though published in the nation's 13th city...
...Real Hick Town." The Journal dominates most of Wisconsin and swamps its only Milwaukee competitor, Hearst's morning Sentinel (circ. 169,445), partly because it never forgets that Milwaukee, in the words of one Journalist, is "a real hick town." The Journal covers it like a town gossip. No club meeting, ladies' bake sale, wedding or business luncheon is too small to rate a Journal story. But its wide coverage of the town's doings has not made the Journal necessarily loved by all its readers. Independent, sometimes cantankerous and always sharp in its editorial opinions...
Correspondent Higgins travels light, usually carries only a typewriter and a musette bag of toilet gear, eats & sleeps where she can (often on the ground), insists on no billeting favors because of her sex. As an all-round journalist, Newshen Higgins may not be quite up to her Trib colleague, Homer Bigart (with whom her feud for beats is already a Korean legend), or with some of the other crack correspondents in Korea. But she tries to make up for it by getting up earlier, and if necessary, working 24 hours a day. Said one colleague: "There's nothing...