Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Westbrook Pegler, 67, applauded their "Impeach Earl Warren" slogan ("I think this is an impractical idea but a worthy emotion"), but noted that he had personally "abstained from joining the society because it might not be far enough to the right." Equally abstemious, for different reasons, was another vintage journalist, California Rancher Thomas M. Storke, 84, who for 61 years has been editor-publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. To counter Big Bircher Robert Welch's $2,300 college essay contest on reasons why Warren should be impeached, Storke offered $1,500 for dissertations on "The Problem...
Colton and Harris have made a dozen converts in Nimes during the past nine months. "That may not seem like very many," commented a Midi-Libre journalist in what was meant for praise, "but these young Americans are better recruiters than the local French Communists...
...British and French troops, soundly whipped by the German army but rescued by an improvised flotilla of 1,200 ships under week-long bombardment, was closer to triumph than to tragedy. By rights, the saga of Dunkirk deserves a Homer, but even in the jabbing, boilerplate prose of British Journalist Richard Collier, a reliable but uninspired artisan of "The Day That" books (The City That Would Not Die-TIME, Jan. II, 1960), the story vividly recalls the curious, human mosaic of heroic and horrifying experience that was pre-Hiroshima warfare...
Divorced. By Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill, 50, rambunctious journalist son of Sir Winston; June Hermione Osborne, 38, his second wife, whom he charged with desertion since 1956; after twelve years of marriage, one daughter; in London...
...summer of 1948, a squat, rumpled man took the witness stand before the House Un-American Activities Committee and made a series of accusations that changed the temper of his times. The accuser was a journalist named Whittaker Chambers. The accused was Alger Hiss, a longtime high-ranking State Department official who had been at Franklin Roosevelt's side at Yalta and had helped to write the Charter of the United Nations...