Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peale says fervently that he wanted to be a salesman-and of course that is, in a sense, what he has always been. Opera Singer Grace Bumbry wants to be a professional race-car driver. Bill Veeck, former owner of the Chicago White Sox, confides the alternate Veeck: a newspaperman. In a "nonfiction short story," Truman Capote wrote that he wanted to be a girl. Andy Warhol confesses without hesitation: "I've always wanted to be an airplane. Nothing more, nothing less. Even when I found out that they could crash, I still wanted to be an airplane...
...check on facts and, more important, judgment. Many reporters are new to the country and do not know Spanish. Network crews, for example, stay only three to five weeks and might not return there. Some of the reporters in El Salvador have little experience reporting. When one young newspaperman tried to tell a tableful of war-wise colleagues that 5,000 refugees had been trapped and shelled by government forces-the essence of a rebel propaganda broadcast-the graybeards picked the story apart. Only a handful of bodies had been found. There was no trace of large numbers of others...
Over at CBS News, Van Sauter, a large and relaxed ex-newspaperman and station manager, thinks news can gain from the energy of sports coverage. He believes that sports bring the viewer (in a phrase he found in a textbook somewhere) "the sweet resolution of anxiety." Viewers make an emotional investment in a player or team that intensifies their watching interest, and, by the end of the game, their hopes have been satisfied or their worries confirmed. Sauter thinks viewers also invest emotionally in people they see in the news. Trouble is, there is no final score anxieties...
DIED. Meyer Levin, 75, prolific author and Zionist; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. Originally a Chicago newspaperman, Levin wrote novels, plays, documentary-film scripts and books of Jewish lore. His biggest success was Compulsion, a 1956 novel based on the sensational Leopold-Loeb murder case he later turned into a hit play and movie...
DIED. John Knight, 86, tough, acerbic newspaperman who, as the founder and longtime editor of the Knight-Ridder group, led its expansion into one of the largest newspaper chains in the country; of a heart attack; in Akron. A former sportswriter and managing editor at the Akron Beacon Journal, Knight inherited the paper from his father in 1933 and used it as a base to build a thriving publishing empire that today includes four television stations and 34 daily newspapers with a combined weekly circulation of 25 million (among them: the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald, the Charlotte Observer...