Word: newsman
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...political observers expected Gruening's defeat. He was a formidable candidate with a distinguished and remarkably varied career as editor, author, historian and statesman. The son of a prominent New York physician, Gruening earned an M.D. at Harvard Medical School but abandoned that profession to become a newsman. At 27 he was managing editor of the Boston Traveler, one of the first editors in the country to demand that his writers treat Negroes fairly in their stories. At the end of World War I he became managing editor of The Nation, used the magazine's liberal platform...
Washington Correspondent Richard Saltonstall, who extensively interviewed this week's cover subject also had a preview of another important document. Since his days as a Seattle newsman, Saltonstall has been a longtime friend of Governor Dan Evans; he listened critically as the Governor delivered his keynote address into a tape recorder in Olympia. Before he flew off to Miami Beach with Evans, Saltonstall was able to give the editors in New York in advance a good idea of just what the G.O.P. keynote speech contained...
Responsible for the magazine's bright new look is Managing Editor Alastair Burnet, a former television newsman who took over the Economist three years ago at the age of 36. Together with Art Director Peter Dunbar, 39, Burnet plots out each cover as a "duet" of picture and caption. Burnet's intent is to attract new readers "in the younger categories." In his three years as M.E., circulation has increased by 45% to 100,000 copies a week...
Alexander, who graduated from Temple University and broke through Philadelphia's color line to become a respected radio newsman, has been going out with both whites and blacks for ten years. He notices an encouraging change in the attitudes of the community. "A couple of years back, I don't know if it took courage to walk about Philadelphia with a white girl, but you could sense the uneasiness. I don't feel that nervousness any more...
Merriman Smith, LL.D., newsman...