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...Newshawk John L. Spivak set out last year to peek under the lids of Europe's dictatorships. He had a glowing reputation as "America's greatest reporter" based on his books, Georgia Nigger and America Faces the Barricades. Partial to underdogs, he paid calls on Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia over a period of five months. Despite radical bias and E. Phillips Oppenheim sensationalism, his findings, published last week as Europe Under The Terror,* gave U. S. readers a good chance to size up both Europe's tyrants and the people they tyrannize...
Twenty-four hours after Mr. Chrysler had departed, curious correspondents trooped in for their week-end Press conference. Had the President, asked a newshawk, given his visitors any ideas on Business...
Last year, world-traveled Author William Buehler Seabrook published Asylum, a vivid description of his seven-month stay in a sanitarium where he was cured of alcoholism. Last week, hearing that Author Seabrook had returned to the sanitarium, a newshawk telephoned his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm, got an explosive denial. Bawled Author Seabrook: "I'm getting sick of that rumor! Every time anyone sees a tough drunk they say it's me, and I'm sore...
Federal law prohibits the exchange of person-to-person radio messages in the course of a public broadcast. A Pittsburgh newshawk confronted Baritone Thomas with this solid legal fact when he sang there last week, asked him what he would do if his filial salutation should be banned from the air by the Federal Communications Commission. John Charles Thomas' reply was unhesitating : "It will be either 'Good Night, Mother,' or 'Goodbye Broadcasting...
Correspondence. For his dispatches from the losing side of the Ethiopian War, Wilfred Courtenay ("Will") Barber of the Chicago Tribune was posthumously awarded $500. First U. S. newshawk to get into the country after hostilities started, 31-year-old Correspondent Barber sickened after three months, died in Ogaden last October of tertian malaria, nephritis, influenza, was buried on a hill in Addis Ababa (TIME...