Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personally, and by more intimate bonds than those of citizenship. For the fact that someone is a law defying. citizen does not mean that he could therefore not at the same time be the best of fathers, the most perfect of gentlemen, or the most outstanding scholar. The great newspaperman is not the one who divulges before Court the identify of his inform auis but the one who rather goes to jail in defense of the superior principles of his profession. The good priest is not the one who betrays the confidence entrusted to him in confession as his "duty...
...those arrested are that lucky. Just before Christmas, a newspaperman having a couple of quick ones in a bar told a fellow patron: "I hear the President has been on a bat for nearly a week." He finished his drink and sauntered out the door into the arms of a waiting plainclothesman. At the station, without even bothering to question him, the police sent him straight to Las Heras penitentiary where he was issued the grey pants, jacket and cap of an Argentine convict and thrown into a cell. Seventeen days later, he was suddenly freed...
Dertinger is not likely to stir up much sympathy. A Prussian cadet, then a newspaperman, he became a jackbooted member of the jackbooted Stahlhelm (steel helmet) organization before Hitler came to power. After the war, though apparently not a Communist, he became their stooge, useful at keeping his fellow Roman Catholics in line. He was rewarded by a visit to Moscow for Stalin's birthday in 1950, a high Polish decoration only last month for having signed away to Poland all German territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers, and a congratulatory telegram only a few weeks ago from...
Last fall, it was The Dartmouth's turn to parody the Crime, which the Hanover staff in 1951 had called "the newspaperman's newspaper and the best undergraduate paper in the country." Whether it deserves this appelation or not, it eighty years the CRIMSON has developed from a tiny literary sheet to a gigantic purveyor of news read by some 15,000 people daily. An on-going dynamism has characterized the first eighty years of Crime history, and there's little reason to suspect the trend will disappear.Yale alumnus, cartoonist Charles Osborne thinks the CRIMSON editorial writer likes to wallow...
Died. Robert Henry Best, 56, South Carolina-born newspaperman and longtime (1923-41) United Press correspondent in Vienna, who turned traitor during World War II, was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948 (TIME, July 12, 1948) for broadcasting Nazi propaganda from Berlin (sample: "I hope that Europe will demand the life of one Jew for every European who dies in the present war"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield...