Word: journalists
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DIED. Hans Habe, 66, Hungarian-born author (A Thousand Shall Fall) and journalist who once enraged Adolf Hitler by disclosing that his real name was Schicklgruber; of a glandular ailment; in Locarno, Switzerland. Habe fought in both the French and U.S. armies in World War II and during the Allied occupation was named overseer of German newspaper publications. Called "a born novelist" by Thomas Mann, Habe wrote a score of widely translated books and, by his own count, some 10,000 articles...
Elizabeth Drew, a political journalist who was one of the questioners at the first Ford-Carter debate, said yesterday she believes the current election process tempts presidential candidates, or "homocandidatus," to ignore issues in their quest for a positive public image...
...admiration can be as seductive?and as lethal?as a spy's gentleness. For despite its style and tongue-and-groove plotting, The Honourable Schoolboy sometimes displays a Balzacian tendency to turn urges into passions, to exaggerate expression into melodrama. Moreover, facts, facts, facts are better left to the journalist-reprobates. Le Carré's long suit is not, after all, reportage, but a "second soul" that amplifies the century's dilemmas...
DIED. Marion K. Sanders, 72, journalist, novelist (The Bride Laughed Once) and biographer of Journalist Dorothy Thompson; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. While working for the State Department, Sanders helped develop its publications program and served as editor in chief of the Russian language magazine Amerika. She later worked as an editor at Harper's and Atlas World Press Review...
...years later, Kunene, editor and political columnist for the Durban newspaper Ilanga, has become the second. Kunene has worked as a journalist for 20 years, writing for English newspapers in South Africa as well as covering political developments for Ilanga, a Zululanguage paper...