Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also been cautious. They spelled out sale terms designed to keep the Democratic Star's policies as different from the Republican Citizen's as possible. Editorial authority at the Star "for the next ten years" went to longtime Editor and Publisher William Rankin Mathews, a crusading newspaperman best known for his 1953 exposé of an Arizona real estate swindle. The arrangement apparently convinced U.S. District Court Judge James Walsh, who denied the Government's plea for an order restraining the sale...
...everything in life. Alfred Damon Runyan,-as he was born in Manhattan, Kans., faced worse odds than that. His father was a sometime newspaper publisher reduced to typesetting and the bottle. His mother died when he was seven. Before he was out of his teens he was both a newspaperman and a drunk...
...called up a columnist (played by Harry Guardino) who had denounced people who stand around watching street crimes without taking action. Now that this fellow had taken action, he was cut and dying, and he wanted the columnist to know about it. For the hour that followed, the newspaperman and his editor (Gary Merrill) tried to determine where the victim was so they could help him. This is the only really revulsive show that has opened this season, pretending to a depth and insight that it totally lacks...
First came the single-engined-plane test; aloft for little more than ten minutes, Gregory brought the red and white Cessna-150 to a perfect, gentle stop, shook hands with a newspaperman ("That boy's palm was barely moist," he reported to the crowd), and bounded on to the twin-engined-plane test. The red, white and black Aztec swooped without a tremor to the skies, made a landing the pilot's mother called "soft as a marshmallow," and was welcomed to earth by a drum-and-bugle corps that sounded a fast fanfare. Gregory fidgeted; a bystander...
...with Lyndon Johnson, then a 34-year-old Congressman. As Kingsbery remembered that meeting, Lyndon first reminded him that Kingsbery's son had obtained an appointment to the Naval Academy through Johnson's office. Said Lyndon: "Now, E.G., I'm not a lawyer or a newspaperman. I have no means of making a living. At one time I had a second-class teaching license, but it has long since expired. I understand you've bought the radio station. I'd like to go in with you or have the station myself...