Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missing. The long morning wore on. In the barrios, priests offered up special prayers, and Filipinos clustered silently around radios. Then, as night began to fall, came the "very bad news." Wreckage had been found in a mountain ravine near Asturias, only 22 miles northwest of Cebu city. One newspaperman, badly burned, was the only survivor of 26 aboard. President Magsaysay was dead. In the barrios and the streets of Manila, Filipinos wept...
...crash also killed 25 others in his party. One passenger on the ill-fated plane, a Filipino newspaperman, miraculously survived. He was brought out by farmers...
...weeks afterwards divers groped about the muddy estuary recovering pieces of railway hardware and bodies. Tay fishermen dragged the river bed for more bodies. The victims were neatly laid out in the station waiting room, and dour Dundee turned out eagerly to watch the funereal spectacle. British Novelist-Newspaperman John Prebble has told the story of the disaster rivet by rivet-from the initial soundings, haphazard design and botched ironwork down to the penny pencil found on the body of a survivor and the last shilling compensation paid to relatives of the victims...
This first novel tells of a Southern prodigal son who returns home too late to recover the world he once spurned. Duncan Welsh had spent seven years as a newspaperman in Northern cities and lost an eye, a wife and all stomach for his job. He heads back to his father's Tennessee valley farm to root himself in the pieties of nature, kinsmen, and feudal loyalties from which he feels he was torn by anonymous city dwelling. But in the bustling regional ferment to which Duncan returns, his attitudes seem romantic, antisocial and outmoded. The powerful dramatic irony...
Though major dailies usually have more job applications than jobs, newspapers in most areas are not only crying for new blood but have steadily increased wage scales. Nevertheless, the average starting pay for a newspaperman at graduation last June was $316 monthly, v. an average $366 for other professions. By contrast, General Electric Co., which regularly shops journalism schools for public relations staffers, offered them starting salaries of $385 a month with guaranteed 10% raises after six months...