Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...develop a sense of responsibility to his audience, and also as a spokesman for the South, though he could still be unpredictable and self-contradictory. His most notorious statement on the racial crisis came in the course of a rambling, angry Oxford interview in February 1956 with British Newsman Russell Warren Howe, who reported Faulkner as saying: "If it came to fighting I'd fight for Mississippi against the United States even if it meant going out into the street and shooting Negroes...
...ebullient crammer, Thomas J. Harty, spends seven hours a day firing off questions, listening to the class consensus, then firing back the correct answers. The method works so well that one year 92% of his students passed the Illinois bar exam. Denver's Gerald Kopel, a former newsman-turned-lawyer, crams his students by simulating actual exams and blasting bad spellers for such barbarisms as adultary, devorse, drunkedness. Austin Lawyer Arthur ("The Garrulous Greek") Mitchell, who claims to have crammed half the lawyers in Texas, dramatizes the "life" in the law. "I tell them the law is comical...
...Drafting Committee hopes to sit down in earnest Friday night. Its three principal writers are: Bryce Harlow, a former Eisenhower speechwriter; Malcolm Moos, another one-time Eisenhower speechwriter, who has been advising Scranton; Karl Hess, a former Washington newsman and one of Goldwater's key advisers. The drafting group will report to the full Platform Committee, hopefully on Saturday. If sharp disputes between Goldwater and moderates break out, Goldwater should be in excellent shape, since a hefty majority of the committee members favor his candidacy...
...looked to me like she had watery eyes, as if she was ready to cry or to say something," a newsman told his city editor that night. "Those Cubans," snorted the editor. "You never know what they are going...
...Bergen's famed fish market, there was more heavy-handed fun. Khrushchev greeted an aquarium-housed Volga beluga as a fellow countryman, saw a market stall collapse and a photographer topple into a pile of fish, roared with laughter when the owner of another stall chased off a newsman by wildly swinging a fish as a weapon...