Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Authors. One co-author of the report was a newsman. Llewellyn White, 46, had worked for the Paris Herald, the Literary Digest, Newsweek and the Chicago Sun. Fortnight ago he went to London to join UNESCO's staff. The other, Dr. Robert D. Leigh,. 55, was a progressive-education specialist, founding president of Bennington College, director of FCC's foreign broadcast intelligence service for two wartime years. Their major proposals...
What, No Scoops? Authors Leigh & White are critical of the "slave-press" countries, but believe that the barrier-breaking problem "is not made easier by the fact . . . that the so-called 'free press' countries sometimes preach more zealously than they practice. . . . What newspapermen really want is what Kent Cooper, executive director of the A. P., calls 'the right to roam the world at will, writing freely of what they see and feel.' ... It means ... an equal opportunity to use their wits to create unequal success. . . . Sorely tempted, a New York Times's Raymond Daniell will...
Biographical Black Market. This pseudo-Byron turned up in England and tried to introduce himself to Lord Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh. He was shown the door. He had more success in peddling forged Byron letters. Through a London book seller, "Major" Byron's wife sold 47 forged Byron autographs to Publisher John Murray. Soon she was back with a swatch of "lost" Shelley letters. Soon the "Major" was in touch with Mary Shelley. Their biographical black marketing was sometimes disturbed by shrill cries of "Blackguard!" from Mary...
What was going on? The Greek Governor General of Macedonia said that no refugees were streaming into Yugoslavia, charged that Slav terrorists were raiding Greek villages. From Rome the Chicago Daily News's Balkan-wise Leigh White cabled: Marshal Tito had apparently launched his long-planned drive to expand federal Yugoslavia at the expense of Greek Macedonia. From Athens the New York Times's European Chief Cyrus Sulzberger reported: "There is a pattern behind these events linked to the politically homogeneous Governments of Greece's three northern neighbors [Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania], who are all ideologically tied...
...Order, Old Style. Correspondent Leigh White, no stranger to the Balkans, visited Bucharest last spring. Last week he reported his impressions of Rumania in the Saturday Evening Post. Among them...