Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent off to prison. Among them were familiar figures: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 60, national committee member and New York Daily Worker columnist; Party Theoretician Alexander Trachtenberg, 65, a product of Russia and Yale; Simon Gerson, 41, onetime candidate for New York City councilman and longtime party newspaperman...
Never Say No. His job on Camel News is only one of John Cameron Swayze's many current enterprises. An ex-newspaperman (Kansas City Journal-Post) and radio newscaster, he first made his mark in 1948, during the presidential conventions in Philadelphia. TV was then still feeling its way and cordially welcomed a commentator like Swayze, who was both durable and willing ("I never said no to anything"). From the solid success of Camel News, he moved on to become a permanent panel member of NBC's Who Said That? (Mon. 10:30 p.m.), where he dazzles...
Last week a visiting Negro newspaperman named Stanley Roberts put their lack of reportorial enterprise to shame. Roberts, 36, Washington bureau chief of the Pittsburgh Courier, got the first published interview with MacArthur since his return to the U.S. It was not the first time Cincinnati-born Roberts has scored a newsbeat. He got the first exclusive interview with Dr. Ralph Bunche when the United Nations mediator returned from Israel, was the first to uncover the court-martial death sentence of Negro Lieut. Leon Gilbert in Korea (TIME...
Unlearn & Relearn. In his wise and witty book (written in collaboration with Lowell S. Hawley, onetime newspaperman), Dr. Fisher describes his postgraduate days in Vienna as "a turbulent, hectic period-where the task each morning was to forget three-fourths of what had been learned the day before and had subsequently been disproved; and where the task each night was to remember half of what had been purposely forgotten in the morning because the theories which disproved these things had been themselves disproved...
...recently Sunday editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and now journalism professor at the University of North Carolina; George McCoy, managing editor of the Asheville Citizen; Henry Coble, telegraph editor for the Greensboro News; and LeGette Blythe, onetime college pal of the late Thomas Wolfe and former Charlotte newspaperman. Blythe has just published his sixth book, a Biblical novel entitled Tear for Judas. He took time off from the convention to sign copies of it for Atlanta bookstores...