Word: newspaperman
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Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall is a newspaperman (Detroit News) and a World War I doughboy who became the Army's chief historian in Europe in World War II. As historian, he quickly learned that the usual military records convey neither the look nor the sound of battle. But by questioning everyone from rifleman to army group commander-and fitting the answers together-"Slam" Marshall soon developed a way of describing war, e.g., Island Victory, Bastogne, that made other service histories sound like business balance sheets...
...traveled to villages where no American had ever been seen before, delivered speeches in good Spanish before civic groups, labor unions and schoolchildren at the rate of two a week."He has dedicated more sewers, slaughterhouses and clinics than a half-dozen politicians," wrote one admiring Salvadoran newspaperman. Once, when he turned up at a dinner celebrating the opening of a library in dusty Suchitoto (pop. 10,619), he called in the cook, asked her to dance with...
Indications are that, as the Negro shares the white man's privileges and opportunities, he also shares his headaches. Sa,ys a Negro newspaperman: "When the Negro had less freedom, he could blame the whites for whatever went wrong with him. Now it's harder for him to blame the whites for his failures." Says Negro Novelist Ralph (Invisible Man) Ellison: "After a man makes $10,000 or $20,000 a year, the magic fades. He is just another man with his problems." Most Negroes still wish they had that kind of problem, but many will agree with Ellison that...
...Civil War newspaperman often deserved the generals' righteous wrath. Efficient security censorship was at first unknown, and reporters gave away more military secrets to the enemy than a flock of spies. A typical dispatch from Illinois in the Chicago Tribune in 1861: "Our forces at Bird's Point now consist of the following regiments . . . [the] Eleventh Illinois . . . Twelfth Illinois . . . Eighteenth Illinois . . . also 17 pieces of artillery, consisting of six 24-pound siege guns, three 24-pound howitzers, two 12-pound howitzers and six 6-pound brass pieces." In October 1861, a New York Tribune correspondent in Missouri wrote...
...fluttered from the mainmast as Italy's sleek new liner Andrea Doria docked at Naples last week with the first woman envoy ever sent to Italy, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce. As the gangplank went down, dignitaries rushed aboard with flowers for the ambassador, and 120 photographers and newspaperman, mostly Italians, followed in a torrent...