Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harper Leech, newspaper man, economist, became vice president of Rudolph Guenther-Russell Law Inc., financial advertising agency. Newspaperman Leech works with sleeves rolled up, a green shade over his eyes, at least four spittoons on hand. Sometimes he gets away from work, rolls up his trousers, sticks a pipe in his mouth, wanders into the woods carrying an old satchel, emerges several days later. In addition to economics, he is an authority on politics, a potent discourser on philosophy, nature, baseball scores...
QUEER PEOPLE-Carroll & Garrett Graham-Vanguard ($2). Theodore Anthony White is a picaresque rascal, a newspaperman. He lands in Los Angeles about as broke as usual, gets a job on a morning paper, is taken drunk, loses his job, wakes up next morning entangled in Hollywood. Successively, never too successfully, he is scenario writer, press agent, blackmailer, entertainer in a bawdy house. To a friend who asks him if he likes the last job better than being in a studio, Hero White replies: "Well, you work with a better class of people...
Mystery. A whole day passed with the authorities completely baffled. They did not know even the reason why Tutor, Detective and Pupil had assembled in one room. Dean Eric Milner-White of King's College repeated bleatingly to one newspaperman after another...
...rents an oversized apartment and proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom of newspapermen: "Some business. Work for the Telegram, there's a paper. When you're fifty-five and you've been there twenty years, they give you a week's pay. Bye-bye, little boy, another guy hobbling on a cane...
...crush a reporter for ornate writing, a caustic city editor bawls, "What do you think you're writing for? A magazine?" The rebuke is pregnant with insulting implication. A newspaperman is jealous of his association with spot news and of the qualities of speed and vigor which he feels set him apart from the magazine "journalist...