Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martha Mitchell is being courted assiduously by New York publishers. Her autobiography, written with Journalist Winzola McLendon, will include such tidbits as the fact that Martha as a young girl knew Bebe Rebozo long before President Nixon did. An editor at Doubleday, a serious bidder for the book, described Martha enthusiastically: "Here was this woman, dismissed as a crazy blonde with good legs by those burly Nixon locker-room boys, and by God, she was telling the truth!" Meanwhile, former Vice President Spiro Agnew was encountering resistance in the literary world. Random House turned down his prospective novel: a whodunit...
...order to create an archetypal "life"' encompassing the essence of the black experience in the U.S. from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the civil rights movement. The year is 1962, and Miss Jane is 110 as she tells her story into a young journalist's tape recorder...
Margaret Craven, a journalist and short-story writer, stayed on for weeks at Kingcome: listening, interviewing, taking notes. Like many another writer in similar circumstances, she resolved that she would get it all down before it was gone forever. What she finally produced was I Heard the Owl Call My Name, a blend of fact and imagination that can better be described as a prose elegy than a novel...
Stone has been a journalist for 52 years, during all of that time a relentlessly conscientious critic of the powerful. In 1952, after 30 years of writing for such newspapers as the New York Post, the New York Star, and P.M., Stone found himself without a job when the New York Daily Compass ran out of money. During Joe McCarthy's heyday, no one was hiring left-wing journalists. And by that time, Stone's leftist reputation was well-known; he was barred (and he still is) from the National Press Club in Washington for inviting a black jurist...
...intellectual impulses behind Stone's writing, however, emerge clearly only in print. Fortunately, English journalist Neil Middleton has compiled an anthology of Weekly pieces which was published last year in the United States. The collection includes essays on McCarthy and the Cold War, civil rights, the arms race, the presidency, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East...