Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just finished reading about Bernard Fall, the journalist who bravely gave his life for his country [March 3]. Just as his family, and friends, and the people of America are proud of him, I, too, am proud of my husband, the Marine photographer who accompanied Fall on his last mission. He was not only a dedicated Marine, but an excellent photographer, and the one and only most fabulous husband and father in the world. I'm not sure of my purpose in writing this letter. Maybe it is that I want you to know who the photographer...
...journalist," he once said, "I am ? in command of a small sector in the very front trenches of this battle for freedom." For Henry Robinson Luce, the battle ended last week. On the 44th anniversary of TIME's first issue, America's greatest maker of magazines died in Phoenix of a coronary occlusion...
...Among the paper's reporters and editors, Luce was considered something of a dandy and a dilettante. Dressed to meet his girl, he ran into the managing editor in the elevator one day. The M.E. looked him over head to toe, then said with withering scorn: "Ah, Luce, a journalist, I see." Luce later said: "I have sometimes said to myself that the one thing I was determined to do was to make 'journalist' a good word. And today it, is a good word...
...plenty of fun (and profit) as an entrepreneur," he said, but from now on he wanted to be a journalist. For the next quarter of a century, he turned his attention primarily to the editorial content of his magazines and the affairs of the nation and the world...
Into the Streets. His habit of constant questioning?combined with a cub reporter's curious eye?made Luce a formidable practicing journalist. His questions about President Kennedy's reading speed, asked of the President himself and his relatives, produced the article in LIFE that revealed that the President liked to read Ian Fleming, and thus launched the James Bond boom in the U.S. He also traveled out of his way some years ago to hear and talk with an obscure young North Carolina preacher named Billy Graham, then gave him his first national exposure in LIFE. Present in Cairo when...