Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, it took but a single ballot to elect Novelist-Journalist Joseph Kessel, 64, to the rarefied ranks of the Académic Française A byliner for Paris' France-Soir and author of the international bestseller The Lion, grey-maned Kessel is the first reporter ever to win a seat in the Academic. His election drew indignant grumbles from a fellow academician. Legion of Honor Commander Henry Bordeaux, who wrote the Academic protesting the entry of "this Kessel, who has lived such a dissolute life...
Bruce M. Galphin, a reporter on race relations for the Atlanta Constitution, gave a journalist's view Wednesday of the forces and events which distinguished Atlanta from the more explosive chapters in desegregation history, before the Lowell House Forum on the South...
...British Journalist Anthony Sampson returned home in 1955 after four years in not-so-dark Africa and soon became convinced that the Establishment was to blame for his country's slow, erratic reactions to its new place in the postwar world. He set forth on a close, hardheaded examination of what he calls "the legs, arms, main bloodstream and metabolism" of the traditions and institutions that collectively control the life of Britain...
...stubborn young acrobats continue to teach themselves to ride the unicycle. Hortense Calisher, a 50-year-old Manhattan mother of two, is one of the masters. Precision and imagination have one of their rare conjunctions in her work. The precision is of language. The face of a British lady journalist "had never seen mascara perhaps but, in a quietly topographical way it had seen almost everything else": a pale, 40-year-old lawyer is a member of a generation "that had been schooled so tonelessly free of prejudices that it had nothing left with which to anneal its convictions." Only...
...into Russia, Hess brought an offer of peace. Hitler, he said, would guarantee the integrity of the British Empire if England would recognize Germany's dominance in Europe. Drawing for the first time on all the old and new information about Hess's strange, ill-fated mission, Journalist-Historian James Leaser (The Red Fort, The Plague and the Fire) has produced an absorbing footnote to history...