Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stone, L.H.D., journalist. For your monumental and legendary achievements as a journalist, for your grand erudition in literature, and for your boundless enthusiasm in classical thought and letters...
Henry Beetle Hough, L.H.D., publisher and journalist. Country editor, essayist, and pioneer conservationist, yours has been a lifetime of striving to preserve the best in man and nature...
...tirade. The newspaperman was elevated to social arbiter, literary critic and political savant. Even today, 22 years after his death, Mencken is remembered as the Sage of Baltimore, a pantheon figure in American letters. It is time for someone else to play the iconoclast. Charles Fecher, himself a Baltimore journalist, performs the task unwittingly in his amusing literary biography, Mencken: A Study of His Thought...
...some reform. When Columbia trustees balked at honoring newspapers for publishing leaked documents like the Pentagon papers, President William McGill got himself appointed to the Advisory Board and persuaded the trustees to keep hands off awards. So all power now rests in the ill-named Advisory Board. Its twelve journalist members are top honchos on Establishment papers (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,-plus Howard H. Hays Jr., editor of the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise). Their reversals of jury recommendations last month gave one unexpected prize to the Washington Post (a well-deserved one to Editorial Writer...
...title at least, it appeared that the top man in the new regime would be the Prime Minister, Noor Mohammed Taraki, 61. He is a soft-spoken novelist and journalist who was once (1952-53) an attaché at the Afghan embassy in Washington. More recently, as leader of the 15,000-member Khalq (Masses) Party, Afghanistan's principal Communist faction, Taraki led a campaign against the domination of the long powerful Mohammed Zahir family, to which both Daoud and the cousin-King he had deposed belonged. Taraki was periodically imprisoned for his activities; indeed, he was in jail...