Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charmingly Churlish. At 32, Colorado-born Harold Ross was an ex-itinerant newspaperman and ex-editor of the A.E.F.'s Stars and Stripes, a rumpled, rawboned man with electric hair. (Dorothy Parker cracked that her life ambition was to walk barefoot through it.) At 57, Ross can afford a good tailor ("I'm a well-dressed man!" he indignantly insists) and curbs his hair, but he has somehow managed to retain the air of permanent dishevelment. Once ex-New Yorker Writer Margaret Case Harriman called Ross "that lovable old volcano," and the late Alexander Woollcott described...
...shortcomings. A Bell for Adano's strength was its immediate relevance to a situation faced by the Allied Military Government in Italy. Time and changes in the situation have worn much of the book's luster away. Author Hersey's gift is that of the true newspaperman: the ability to report, on the scene and under pressure, the feelings, happenings, circumstances and significance of the moment...
...point that "Malaya" gets across is that greed has no nationality but Americans have. Jimmy Stewart and Spencer Tracy play two American nondescripts, one a newspaperman and the other a convict. They are sent to Singapore to steal rubber from the Japs during the war. The rubber stealing business makes a reasonably good Terry-and-the-Pirates adventure story; but the obscure transition by Tracy and Stewart from riff-raff to flag-bearers makes the whole plot implausible and over-sentimental...
...Honor (TIME, Oct. 5, 1942), which was clumsy fiction and embarrassingly indebted to Hemingway, but good reporting about war in the air. His second novel, The Sea Eagle, made it plain that not even the most studious aping of Hemingway was enough to make a novelist out of a newspaperman. With The Diplomat, it should by now be obvious even to his publishers that Author Aldridge ought to get back to straight reporting...
...benefit of Reader Jones and all concerned, Content is indeed Senior Editor Peckham's given name (she is married to Joseph Cowan, a former newspaperman). There have been Peckhams in New England since the 17th Century, including Contents and a Freelove or two, but TIME'S Content Peckham is a native New Yorker (New Rochelle). We first caught sight of her in 1930, after she was graduated from Bryn Mawr, when she applied for a researcher's job. She was told to get some experience and try -again...