Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years I have never heard a newspaperman use the word 'scoop.'- One might say 'beat' to describe a four-minute advantage on a hot story, but scoop is a bad word. A worse word is 'game' to refer to our business, as in 'How do you like the newspaper game?' If this is a game it is a very strenuous sport, indeed, and I would not 'play' it for free...
...take the Crime's word as to its standing as a newspaper. Instead, hark to the Daily Dartmouth of March 31, 1951 which said, "The Harvard CRIMSON is the newspaperman's newspaper and the best undergraduate paper in the country. It maintains a brilliance of writing style and a technical excellence which is not surpassed by any daily at any level. Its editorial page is a foundry of ideas which radiates inspiration to bucolic journals like this...
Sugar added a final thought: "Walter is a newspaperman and is entitled to his own opinion, but I think it is making him appear as though he were attacking Miss Baker because she stood up in this matter against Sherman Billingsley...
...father, an army general, first sent him to a military academy, then to law school, but gave up trying when the youth ran off with an Italian dancer. While learning to paint, Di worked as a railroad-tie inspector, newspaperman, dress designer and actor. He spent ten years in Europe, studying and largely rejecting its modern painting styles...
Author Oursler, 58, a Reader's Digest editor and onetime newspaperman, knows from experience what people want to hear about, and how they want to hear it. His rewrite of the New Testament, The Greatest Story Ever Told, has sold nearly 1,500,000 copies and is still going strong...