Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dared cross him was Mello, a crusading newspaperman whose election as governor in 1950 touched off a bloody feud. Mello ordered an investigation into the previous Góes Monteiro regime; a star witness was found with both legs-and his spirit-broken, and at one point rival gangs fought a pitched battle with machine guns on the floor of the state assembly. When Mello moved on to the national Senate 14 months ago, old Góes Monteiro promised: "He'll never make his first speech...
...Kind of Love is another game of footsy, one of those comedies that tries to make a virtue of its vice but can't decide which is which. In it, Paul Newman gamely plays an oversexed newspaperman exiled to the Champs Elysées after meeting too many deadlines with his boss's wife. Joanne Woodward is a department store buyer who treks abroad to pinch designs from Dior, Lanvin-Castillo and Pierre Cardin. Naturellement, she herself wears mannish styles and spectacles-she's a sort of hemidemisemivirgin, "a girl who tried love once but didn...
...world race with Dorothy Kilgallen and that his departure should serve as a kickoff for a story of her early exploits. Ekins looked upon the race as a lark. He had said to his associates at the Union-Star, "There is something more important to a working, writing newspaperman than a promotion stunt." Ekins was a brilliant and courageous reporter, and he held the principles of good journalism sacred. He was a newspaperman to the end, and he still looked askance at those who organized publicity stunts to get their names or products into the news columns...
Slender, blue-eyed Maria turned up at the office of a Milan newspaperman friend one day last week to see how they were playing the story. He jokingly wrote out a fake headline quoting her as saying: I LOVE HENRY AND I WILL SOON MARRY HIM. "Oh no!" she squealed, laughing delightedly. "That would ruin me!" They agreed to make it: MARIA CHRISTINA DOES NOT DENY FRIENDSHIP WITH HENRY FORD...
...shows have gone downstream this spring in large numbers, but the new ones that will replace them next season are from the same tube. Situation comedies will reach a bit farther than ever. CBS offers My Favorite Martian, about a marooned Martian who gets into comic scrapes with a newspaperman. Paul Henning, creator of The Beverly Hillbillies, starts a new yokel yarn called Petticoat Junction, about a widow and three calico daughters. Burke's Law (ABC) stars a millionaire police detective who tools around in a Rolls-Royce when off duty and whips up souffle Grand Marnier for snacks...