Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long shutdown, the 400 or so Times journalists reported to the office twice a week, covered their beats as best they could and worked on long-term stories. Some two dozen Timesmen busied themselves writing books, others freelanced for magazines, but none completely escaped the ennui that afflicts a newspaperman suddenly without a newspaper. "I feel like a frog in the winter," Times Foreign Editor Charles Douglas-Home said at one point. "All horizons have contracted. Things continue to function, but at a tiny percent of efficiency...
...newspaperman, Larsen was born in Boston in 1899. He attended public schools there and went on to tax-supported Boston Latin School. The experience gave him a lifelong interest in public education and, he once said, "a sense of gratitude for what the American public school system did for me ... [It] translated into reality the American ideal of equality and opportunity...
Donovan came to Time Inc. with a magna cum laude degree from the University of Minnesota plus an Oxford degree acquired as a Rhodes scholar. He put in five years as a newspaperman in Washington, then most of World War II in the U.S. Navy. A 1945 personnel memo details these and other qualifications, going on to note that "young Donovan is a handsome gentleman of 31, with blue eyes, a level gaze, a deep voice and a serious manner enlivened by a quick smile." None of that description needs to be changed today, except, inevitably and unbelievably...
...newspaperman, the touchiest of all charges is bias, since he labors constantly to scrub his story free of it. He must be doing well at this, for people who think newspapers are unfair to labor, business, consumerists or environmentalists amount to less than 15% in each category. That statistic speaks better for impersonal journalism than its critics give it credit...
...those years that Byrne appealed in her seemingly quixotic campaign run by her husband, a former newspaperman, and a Hyde Park liberal organizer named Don Rose, now considered a traitor by the all-but-dead lakefront independent movement. Byrne was Daley's loyal hand-maiden--willing to sing his praises more loudly and obsequiously than even the most seasoned of ward-heelers. It was she who helped direct the late Mayor's infamous infiltration of dissident groups. When Daley was alive, she was a terror; her acid-tongued remarks stung any who didn't toe the party line. When Daley...