Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gets older, Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo has not got any more adroit in his rough ways. His misdeeds have only become more conspicuous. Last week Trujillo angrily demanded the removal of a U.S. embassy officer for "conveying certain material derogatory to the Dominican Republic to a British newspaperman." The U.S., as a sign of Washington's distaste for Trujillo, seized the occasion to recall Ambassador Joseph Farland for an indefinite time. And as separate evidences of their displeasure with the dictator's methods, Colombia and Peru last week severed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic...
...Wrote Managing Editor Turner Catledge in two rare signed statements: "The Times standards require the reporting of the news in its fullest and most balanced form . . . The New York Times has every confidence that Mr. Salisbury reported the situation as he saw it through the eyes of an objective newspaperman. He did not go to Birmingham 'seeking sensationalism' or anything else but the facts." Yet, Catledge admitted: "We recognize that the articles did not stress the obvious fact that an overwhelming percentage of the citizens of that city lead happy and peaceful lives in a growing and prosperous...
Divorced. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 61, sometime newspaperman and author, who last year in his twelfth nonfiction book (Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents) listed F.D.R. as "the only person in our social group who took me seriously"; by Ann Bernadette Needham, 28, his sixth wife and former secretary; after three years, no children; in Reno...
Reporting on the land of wonder in 1960 was the task of Brisbane Stringer Fred Hubbard, a transplanted Chicago newspaperman who has spent 13 years covering Australia, and Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow. They spent three weeks in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra interviewing scores of businessmen, actors, writers, architects, economists and government officials. Says Karnow, "I personally was so impressed with the country's potential that before I departed, I left material proof of my faith in Australia's future: I invested a modest sum in four Australian companies...
...book's hero is Daniel Tiamat, an Irish-American newspaperman (his name is that of a doomed deity, the mother of the gods in Babylonian mythology). The book tells how Tiamat arrives at young manhood in full vigor of mind and body, with a crapshooter's wrist, moral faculties unblunted by use, and a more than Hearstian knowledge of what makes news paper readers salivate. By middle age he is reduced to physical paralysis and the ignominy of writing an agony column un der the pseudonym of Miss Friendship (clearly a fictional cousin of Nathanael West...