Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research for a book on Lenin, who lived there in 1902. Actually, Kuznetsov had a much more compelling motive. Four days after his arrival in London, he managed to evade his Soviet-assigned traveling companion and flee to freedom. Seeking refuge in the home of a Russian-speaking British newsman, he declared: "I am a Russian writer, and that is who I am and I am not going back to the Soviet Union...
...Rocky that they had no use for their government or for the U.S. More meetings and a reception; then, less than 36 hours after he had arrived, Rocky was off at 5 a.m., headed for Haiti-and more of the same. What did the Governor think of Argentina, a newsman asked just before the plane left. "I'll tell President Nixon," grinned Rocky...
...from Sports. Born in Minneapolis, the son of a British-born newsman, Pegler dropped out of high school and landed a $10-a-week job as a United Press office boy at the age of 16. After World War I naval service, he turned to sportswriting, first for United Press, then for the Chicago Tribune. His flair for words made him a success. By 1929, he was earning $25,000 a year. In 1933, Scripps-Howard enticed him to write a more general column, and a dozen years later he shifted to Hearst's King Features Syndicate, where...
...Congressman X was flagged down by a newsman on the steps of the Capitol...
Walter Cronkite, L.H.D,, TV newsman...