Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pierre was born in San Francisco on June 14, 1925. His father, a New York-born mining engineer and a devoted amateur musician, died in a 1941 auto crash. His mother, daughter of a minor French politician-journalist, was and remains, in her sixties, an effervescent, amiable busybody with a penchant for supporting liberal causes. She now lives in Carmel, Calif., enjoys nothing more than regaling reporters with clinical details regarding the problems she had nursing little Pierre...
...recently, Freelance Journalist Rajinder Kapoor dropped in at New Delhi's Coffeehouse, and lingered most of the morning. When he called for his bill, it totaled one rupee. He was astounded to find that the price of a cup of coffee had gone up from 45 to 50 paise, making two cups an even rupee (21?). Kapoor shouted the grim news to friends. "This is the last straw!" cried someone. "No, the last cup!" yelled someone else. Suddenly the customers were on their feet, protesting against the rising prices and calling for a boycott. Hastily finishing their coffee, customers...
...every stop, efficient campaign staffs reduce the journalist's duty to a minimum. Jack Valenti, President Johnson's aide, relieves newsmen of one chore by counting the times a Johnson speech is interrupted by applause. There are telephones in the press pool cars-vehicles reserved for a few correspondents chosen to represent the many, which thrust as near the candidate's limousine as safety permits. Speech texts are usually available in advance...
Thus one of the journalist's favorite pastimes-injecting his own judgments of the campaign oratory (TIME, Oct. 2) -has become a casualty of the jet age. Says New York Timesman Ned Kenworthy, traveling with Humphrey: "There's enough going on that it would be pretty hard not to be objective. You stick pretty much to the speeches...
...feelings that to be on TIME'S cover is a distinction quite different from being in a newspaper headline. And in most cases, our cover subjects have achieved importance by the good they have done. But there are those who achieve importance by doing evil, and neither the journalist nor the historian can ignore them. Lee Oswald is on TIME'S cover not to be "glorified," but to be examined and judged as a protagonist in a historical event...