Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boeing Boeing, by contrast, plows leadenly into every error that Male Companion avoids. Its graceless lechery weighs down a comedy about three airline hostesses who share a Paris flat with Tony Curtis. As a prodigiously oversexed American newspaperman, Tony has obviously never met a deadline, but he does keep busy checking timetables, the better to enjoy, one by one, his "fiancées" from British United (Suzanna Leigh), Lufthansa (Christiane Schmidt-mer) and Air France (Dany Saval). "You don't need a housekeeper-you need a Univac," snaps Tony's maid-of-all-work, Thelma Ritter, who schlumps...
Still, much of the improvement in the Pulliam papers can be chalked up to Pulliam himself, who has always been portrayed as more of an intransigent conservative than he actually is. At 76, Pulliam is one of those publishers who is a newspaperman first. "Why in hell," he asks, "should a man want to sell newspapers? If I wanted to make money, I'd go into the bond business. I've never been interested in the money we make but in the influence we have...
...last week, apologizing for the views that for seven years he was wont to deliver from his haughty isolation in the Elysée. Instead, a fascinated France saw a new De Gaulle, submitting night after night, for the first time in his life, to the interrogation of a newspaperman-forced to defend his accomplishments as President, to explain his grand designs, reduced to begging for his re-election like any politician...
...likely to meet, and never should meet. The editor has convinced himself that he, like my movie producer, can bang out as good a column if he had the time." For all that, O'Hara ruefully admitted: "For the tenth time, I am an unemployed newspaperman...
Hodding Carter is a good newspaperman. He keeps on speaking terms with both warring factions, and it's his style that lets him straddle the fence. Carter's heart is with the civil-rights worker, but, at the same time, the man is Old South, through and through. Each half of Mississippi resents his other self...