Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Fred S. Ferguson. 72, president of NEA Service (1926-58), a Scripps-Howard newspaperman for 50 years; in Huntington...
...life devoted to sports writing has led to these conclusions. "From the time I can remember first having ambitions for a career, I wanted to be a newspaperman." Pittenger was born in Kansas City, Mo., but he moved often, attending 15 schools in seven states. Constantly on the move, he had only one thing to take an interest in everywhere he went--sports. It was easy to combine games and journalism "into one big word--sportswriting," he says...
...During 30 years as a newspaperman," said Reporter Don Whitehead, "home had been wherever I happened to hang my hat." In World War II he hung his hat in hundreds of huts and tents, covered the front wherever war burned hottest: in Africa, Sicily, Italy, Belgium, France and Germany. He hung it in Korea in 1950, won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage, won another in 1953 for his stories on President-elect Eisenhower's trip to the Korean front. His byline, as a top Associated Press reporter, was for years among the most widely known...
Died. Olaf Iversen, 57, German newspaperman and cartoonist who in 1954 revived the far-famed, grimly satiric magazine Simplicissimus, filled it with jibes at both East and West, and biting antimilitarist attacks in keeping with the anti-Prussian tradition of the original Simplicissimus (founded in 1896); in Munich...
...miracle maker was Birrell's Brazilian lawyer, Jorge Chaloupe, 52. Half attorney, half pressagent, Chaloupe ("I used to be a newspaperman myself") built his career around a careful study of Brazil's immigration laws. Recently, he rescued U.S. Promoter Earl Belle from deportation by stalling long enough for Belle's wife to have a baby in Brazil; parents of Brazilian-born children are not deportable. For Birrell, Chaloupe began by starting a flock of legal actions that blocked immediate expulsion. Then, as U.S. embassy officials explained to Assistant D.A. Hallisey, Birrell received a shipment of cash...