Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cops and newsmen often get along like cops and robbers. But there are times when the police eagerly oblige a journalist's least request. Last week was such a time. With the bitter triumph that only a cop can feel, lawmen in New York and Chicago captured two of the three men suspected of having killed two New York detectives during a stickup at a Brooklyn store. And when news photographers asked for pictures of the cop killers, police in both cities were only too happy to assist, even though it took some doing...
...movie's complex plot deals with the experiences in World War II of two men who are thrown together as war prisoners doing forced labor in a small German village. One is a successful journalist who wants to fight in order to prove himself. "What am I looking for?" he asks. "Baptism by fire. I want to see what it's like when they really turn the heat...
...Both the journalist, Jean, and the pastry-chef, Roger, are employed by the same sympathetic family which refuses to share the village's hatred of the French. Jean thinks only of escape, even if it means disgracing the family's young daughter; Roger refuses to join him at the expense of the family which has befriended them...
Ritual & Injunction. The Pulitzer prizes immortalize the name, but scarcely the intent, of Joseph Pulitzer, a crusading 19th century journalist who founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, introduced comic strips and sensational headlines (LOVE AND CIGARETTES CRAZED HIM) in his New York World, and willed $2.000,000 to Columbia University. All but $500,000 of the bequest was earmarked for the establishment of a journalism school. Pulitzer reserved the smaller sum for the annual prize contest* that bears his name...
...become the Herald Tribune) more than a century ago. The time was the ill-fated Crimean War of 1853-56, in which a British-French expeditionary force, after many a blunder, frustrated Czarist Russia's plans to swallow the Turkish Empire. Correspondent Marx, then an impoverished freelance journalist scribbling in a London slum, looked beyond the surface meaning of the war, beyond the imperious figure of the Czar, and saw a "barbarous" power embarked on a campaign of world conquest...