Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF JEAN MACAQUE, by Stuart Cloete. A series of bittersweet fables of love, stylishly narrated by a fictional philandering journalist who believes that "with enough beds, there might be no battlefields...
...long career as a British journalist, Malcolm Muggeridge, 61, one time editor of Punch, has more than earned his reputation as an incorrigible professional iconoclast. Muggeridge is never happier than when assaulting the Establishment - any Establishment. "A royal soap opera," was his considered judgment, in the Saturday Evening Post, of Britain's royal family. Last week, in the lively New York Review of Books, Critic Muggeridge opened fire on a transatlantic target: the John F. Kennedy legend...
...possess the qualities which make a great General, but the question, is not the sort of importance. In any case, they will never be developed, for, if they exist, they are overshadowed by qualities which might make him, almost at will, a great popular leader, a great journalist, or the founder of a great advertising business...
...post: I have on the contrary become fairly well-known for my work on the Crimson. Had I been a boy with the same qualifications, the ordinariness of my case would be obvious, and I most certainly would have gone down in unpublished defeat as just another ambitious politico-journalist. And strangely enough, there were moments in the campaign (which would probably have disgusted some of my most enthusiastic supporters) when I forgot it had originated as a joke and desired election just as much as any other grubby politician...
When he was called upon to lead Britain in 1940, Churchill felt that his "past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial." In fact, he was already 65 and had led a full life as a politician, historian, biographer, journalist, painter, and soldier...