Word: journals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Secord portrayed himself as a patriotic private citizen recruited by the White House to help support the Nicaraguan contras after Congress had cut off U.S. Government assistance. Although Secord told his story without insisting on immunity from prosecution, last week he assailed the hearings in a Wall Street Journal column, calling the proceedings an "obscene spewing of information and misinformation" and an example of the nation's "periodic, spasmodic flirtation with self- destruction...
Rites of Passage ends with a bang that would seem to preclude much in the way of a continuation. Edmund Talbot, a smug, upper-class young man sailing from England to the Antipodes in the early years of the 19th century, concludes the private journal he has been keeping for his godfather and patron back home. Talbot's shipboard jottings have coalesced into the remarkable story he witnesses at sea: the long scapegoating and mysterious death of Robert James Colley, an Anglican clergyman...
...professor of English at Yale University who wrote six books and edited 26 others from the diaries and papers of James Boswell, the 18th century Scottish gentleman and rakehell who gained immortality as Samuel Johnson's biographer; in New Haven, Conn. Pottle's 1950 edition of Boswell's London Journal sold more than 1 million copies and established his literary reputation as Boswell's Boswell. Noting his incompatibility with Boswell, Pottle once declared, "He was such a noisy, bouncy fellow, and I'm rather quiet and pensive...
During his yellow-journalism heyday in the 1930s, Hearst dictated rat-a-tat headlines and punished political enemies in 18 big-city papers, including the New York Journal-American, the Chicago Herald-American and the Pittsburgh Sun- Telegraph. Today the company publishes 15 dailies, most of them in smaller cities such as Midland, Texas, and Bad Axe, Mich. After years of mounting losses, the firm sold the Boston Herald American to Rupert Murdoch in 1982 and shut down the Baltimore News-American four years later. As if to prove that it was not deserting big cities entirely, Hearst bought...
...winners, Country Living and Colonial Homes, and has just launched Victoria, a glossy, evocation of the Victorian era complete with recipes for potpourris. Though the magazines contribute an estimated 65% of the company's net profits, some face increasingly aggressive rivals. Hearst's Harper's Bazaar, the tony fashion journal that has run second to Conde Nast's Vogue, is now being challenged by the frisky, well-designed Elle, an American cousin of the French original. House Beautiful is losing ad pages to its onetime equal, House & Garden, which has gone upscale by offering lavish picture spreads and admiring articles...