Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odds with his stern father who once wrote in the Globe: "Three Atchison young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Even when Gene Howe took a job on the family's paper, his father agreed he was an "impossible" newspaperman, summarily fired him. After four years working as a reporter on the Portland Oregorian, Gene went back to the Globe. Later he borrowed $25,000 from friends and took over the paper when his father retired...
...party which he gave in Washington, Governor Thomas E. Dewey met an old Albany friend, Leo W. O'Brien, onetime newspaperman who was recently elected Democratic Congressman from Albany. O'Brien, veteran of many a Dewey campaign trip, greeted the governor with a special song: "He took the high road and I took the low road, and I was in Washington afore...
Grandfather Chambers, a Philadelphia newspaperman, had a different foible: every time he came to visit, he took the two little boys on his tours of the local bars. "By the time I was nine or ten," says Chambers, "my grandfather had dragged me through most of the saloons in eastern Long Island . . . Saloons, I early discovered, were singularly tranquil places...
...archbishop's opponents, who in elude Labor Secretary Jóse Figueras am other highly placed politicians and businessmen, have not been able to attar] him openly as they have attacked Father Hogan. (Said a Manila newspaperman "They would be fighting the Pope him self.") Fortnight ago, however, after thi archbishop had left for Rome on a visit they had their first try. Eugenio Lopez publisher of the Manila Chronicle and ; wealthy friend of Figueras', editorially accused Vagnozzi of "arrogence and condescension" toward the Philippine government. Next day, in the Philippini Congress, Representative Estanislao Fernandez introduced a resolution...
...Cervises hid the whole bundle, but later they forgot their trust long enough to hand over the toilet-paper diary to a Milan newspaperman. Its publication in 1946 put the police, the press and Clara's relatives (selfexiled in Spain to avoid embarrassing investigations at home) in hot pursuit of the rest of her possessions and revelations...