Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Line?; and she covered occasional front-page events for the Hearstpapers with a flair rarely equaled by the competition. On any assignment she made herself so conspicuous that she often became part of the story. After Dr. Sam Sheppard's 1954 conviction for murder, the New York Journal-American was moved to run a headline: DOROTHY KILGALLEN SHOCKED...
Hints of Espionage. As a youngster, Dorothy wanted to grow up to be like Daddy-crack I.N.S. Reporter James Kilgallen. The summer after her freshman year at the College of New Rochelle, she went to work at the New York Evening Journal and liked it so much she never went back to the class room. Enjoying a well-known byline by the time she was 23, she joined a race with two other New York reporters to see who could get around the world fastest by commercial airline. By clock and calendar, Dorothy came in second; in the contest...
...Essay on "What Big Daddy, Alias Uncle Sam, Will Do for YOU" [Nov. 5], you ask, "Can anyone recall seeing a protester burn up his social security card?" The answer is yes. A photograph in The Providence Journal showed a psychology student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque burning his social security card in protest against having to work for a living...
...account of his 20 years in the upper echelons of the British government is now available in Europe under the title Spy, and Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, executed by the Russians in 1963 after 16 months of spying for the CIA and Britain's M.I.5, whose fuddled and footnoted journal is due this month under the title The Penkovsky Papers...
According to his journal, Penkovsky approached Western sources-both in Moscow and abroad-many times before he convinced the West that he was a legitimate informer. His reasons: sheer hatred of Nikita Khrushchev, coupled with fear of thermonuclear war. Once in the confidence of the West, Penkovsky turned his embittered talents to transmitting everything he knew to the West. Penkovsky's contact was Greville Wynne, a businessman and go-between for British intelligence who served as Penkovsky's chief courier...