Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's longest mustache? Who was the world's most productive mother? No standard reference book troubles with such trivia, but an offbeat guide called The Guinness Book of Records answers such questions with gusto. And because it does, Guinness has become a useful handbook for any newspaperman who wants to spice a story with a few superlatives. Last week the second U.S. edition was rolling off the presses with the latest answers to unlikely questions: the world's mustache champ, says the new Guinness, is Masudiya Din. a Bombay Brahman who sports...
...Joke. The $80-million fair is the result of luck, audacity-and hard work. The notion for a world's fair was born seven years ago when three leading citizens met for drinks at the Washington Athletic Club. Two members of the Chamber of Commerce and a newspaperman convivially agreed that it would be nice for Seattle to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition with another, grander fair. By the time the three reached the label on the bottle, the fair was no joke, and things began to happen. The city pledged $10 million...
Abused to Abusive. When iron-fisted ex-Newspaperman Syngman Rhee was deposed from the presidency last year, the newspapers were given more freedom than they had ever enjoyed in the history of the Hermit Kingdom. They promptly ran wild. Themselves abused in the past, they suddenly became outrageously abusive. New publications and agencies proliferated; at one time there were 128 dailies and 311 news agencies, many run by shady operators who never published a single issue but used them as fronts for smuggling operations, black-marketeering or blackmail. Reporters, paid $30 to $40 a month, were ordered to exhume scandals...
...correspondent, complete with collar-up trench coat, brim-down hat, and blackthorn cane. He was a man who had known Hitler in 1921, interviewed two Popes, chartered the Graf Zeppelin for a trip around the world, covered twelve wars and been wounded in two. He had been a working newspaperman for 62 years...
...makes clear that a great deal of sexual intercourse of various kinds has always been carried on in Paris, as he recites the squalid life, loves, and even more squalid conversation of the human fauna of Montparnasse: opulent and heavily gartered Tania; Van Norden (now reputedly a New York newspaperman) who loves a poxy and paranoid Russian cryptoprincess; the girls who sit around their brothel parlors scratching themselves "like chimpanzees"; the tortured expatriate Fillmore who cries out the tragicomedy of the Lost Generation: "Sure, I hate those puritanical buggers back home-I hate 'em with all my guts...