Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inventions, and a delivery good enough to shield from his listeners the gravy stains on material, memory and wit. With this equipment, a talker who happens to be, say, a journalist, can Jang out a newspaper column for years in an average daily elapsed time of eleven minutes (so Newspaperman Ruark has coasted; one suspects the creative memory is an aid in recounting the feat). Or he can put together two volumes of yarns about his boyhood and overgrown-boyhood that have the virtues, and all of the faults, of good, whiskyish, late-evening reminiscence...
...tons of surplus corn, wheat, barley and dried milk on its way to Peru. The tragic story of just how little of the food found its way into the stomachs of starving Peruvians emerged last week, thanks to a congressional committee in Washington and a hard-digging U.S. newspaperman in Lima...
Died. Arthur James Pegler, 98, a newspaperman known affectionately as "Chicken" to his son, Columnist Westbrook Pegler, famed as a rough-and-tumble reporter on Hearst's rough-and-tumble Chicago American from 1900 to 1915; in a Tucson, Ariz, nursing home...
...clotted the aisles and pressed close to the stage, waving huge Goldwater placards. "This country," said Goldwater, "is being caught up in a wave of conservatism that could easily become the phenomenon of our time. Nobody knows for sure its present strength or its future potential. But every politician, newspaperman, analyst and civic leader knows that something is afoot that could drastically alter our course as a nation." It has an anchor in the "conservative movement" among college students, he said, who "know that this thing that has gone along for 30 years and has cost $400 billion under...
Skyline, by Gene Fowler. The 1920s again, this time described by Old Newspaperman Fowler, who tells what bliss it was in that sweet dawn to be a Hearst managing editor, concerned only with the news value of James J. Walker and monkey glands...