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...Newshawk Robert C. Albright, Washington Post, remembered that this was the last week of the tomato season. Everyone felt better. And now the familiar scene occurred again: in downtown Toledo, Wendell Willkie was welcomed screamingly, like a combination of Lincoln and Clark Gable, by another ecstatic, confetti-and-hurrah audience...
Even such professional cynics as newsmen knew that no mere love of office or appetite for acclaim could drive a man to the punishment Willkie was taking daily -not the boos, but the grinding strain of the campaign. "A punch-drunk prophet," said one newshawk...
...talent for smooth collaboration that Thomas has evidenced in his radio work has distinguished him throughout his career. Back in 1916, when he first decided to make lecturing his career after a spell as newshawk and instructor in English at Princeton, he was helped along by Dale Carnegie, who even then was busy making friends & influencing people. After being sent to Europe on a quasi-official Government mission to gather material for a propaganda talk, he came back to the U. S. in 1919 with the necessary facts & photographs for a series of four shows. Once again Friend Carnegie...
...months ago The New Yorker delivered to its 152,777 subscribers the sixth and final installment of the longest "profile" (thumbnail biography) it ever ran. The subject: gun-toting, fox-faced Walter Winchell, No. 1 U. S. transom-peeper. The author: St. Clair McKelway, free-lance newshawk and onetime managing editor of The New Yorker. So sharp was Mc-Kelway's scalpel that Winchell, who had expected a pat on the head, did not realize until the operation was well begun that his throat was being slit. This week the operation appeared in book form for as many...
...reporter instead of an economist. Johnny gets his assignment to find out whether a Low Countries statesman named Van Meer (Albert Basserman) has a chance to delay war. Johnny's company includes a suave peace crusader (Herbert Marshall) and his wide-eyed daughter (Laraine Day), a cucumberish British newshawk (George Sanders), a character (Robert Benchley) who is to the life what Robert Benchley undoubtedly would be if he had been a foreign correspondent in London for 25 years. As usual, Hitchcock identifies his villains early, traps them late...