Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hara dialogue seems melodramatic, but in his stories it reads smoothly. Over the years O'Hara's ear for dialogue has become something of a legend, as critics never tire of reminding us. Yet he did not come by this talent easily: he worked at it as a young journalist. Fox example, in 1929 he got a New Yorker assignment to report the meetings of the Orange County Afternoon Delphian Society. As Walcott Gibbs reflected in 1938, after a while the stories became almost impossible to read, "the sensation was uncomfortably like being trapped among the ladies while they talked...
...night last January, Harold Adrian Russell Philby, 51, a British journalist based in Lebanon, headed off for an appointment, telling his wife Eleanor that he would join her later in the evening at a dinner party at the Beirut home of a British embassy official. Philby not only did not show up at the party, but dropped out of sight in Beirut altogether...
...Vatican's subtle chief of protocol, Msgr. Igino Cardinale, figured out a deft compromise. Since officials of the Balzan Foundation* were scheduled to visit the Pope with the formal announcement that he had won their 1963 Peace Prize, why should not Adzhubei cover the event as a working journalist? Afterward, it was hinted, a private-but quite unofficial-meeting with the Pope might be arranged...
...Paul; "some of the best times I've had didn't cost money." What was more, "I wish I had a better personality so that I could entertain better. I'm worried that I may be on the dull side." Later, in Manhattan, jet-set Journalist Elsa Maxwell, 79, agreed with Getty all the way. "He's quite right to wish that," observed Elsa, "he's the dullest man that ever lived, and socially impossible." As for those good times that cost no money, Elsa recalled: "I attended a dinner party given...
...other hand, "generate an anti-Castroism protesting the social reforms of the Cuban government," Boersner said, and termed this illiberal sentiment "easily as bad as the evil it claims to be fighting." Under these governments, which oppose social change, "Castro propaganda is bound to be effective," the journalist warned...