Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zealand journalists foregathered at Dunedin to honor Russell Owen, returning Byrd expedition newspaperman. They gave him a paperweight made of New Zealand greenstone, surmounted by a silver model of the Kiwi (New Zealand bird with rudimentary wings useless for flying), toasted him "the only newspaperman in the world who has covered assignments in both Polar regions...
Author Paul tells this fantastic story as if it had happened to himself, and so plausibly that it ceases to appear fantastic. The narrator, a U. S. newspaperman in Paris, gets into talk with another ex-U. S. soldier in a café, and hears a strange yarn about a signalling detachment of 40 women who managed to get up to the front. Their commander, Lieutenant Alberta Snyder, had drilled them into a fine body of women. During the drive against the Hindenburg Line they did yeoman service at the field telephones; an infuriated but harassed commanding officer allowed them...
Week before last, in World's Press News (English weekly), one Garry Allighan. Anglo-American newspaperman, compared British news tactics disadvantageously to U. S. methods. Journalist Allighan said that he had been 14 years in newspaper business on both sides of the Atlantic. Holding every position from reporter to managing editor, he had burgled a Detroit home for a photograph, caught neuralgia at a Montreal theatre fire...
...Author. Jim Tully, onetime transcontinental tramper (three times across), farm laborer, link heater, circus roustabout, chainmaker, prizefighter, newspaperman, tree surgeon, was born near St. Marys, Ohio, 1891, now lives in Hollywood, Calif. Other books: Emmett Lawler, Beggars of Life, Jarnegan, Life of Thomas H. Ince, Life of Charlie Chaplin, Circus Parade, Shanty Irish...
...week before that, a Miss Ada M. Wheeler, onetime Cincinnati school teacher, "carrying with her credentials of a special correspondent," had engaged the Times-Star's city room in conversation when the Leviathan's ship-to-shore telephone service was inaugurated. Afraid that "a seasick newspaperman on board . . . might recover and 'beat me to it,' " she spoke to Managing Editor Moses Strauss for three minutes, described the introduction of the service. The Times-Star splashed the story of the event across its front page and was not pleased when Publisher Howard's newspapers announced later...