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...Newspapermen are notoriously bad prophets.* But when the mood is on them, they cannot refrain from prophesying. Last week two veteran political reporters, Jim Hagerty of the New York Times and Edwin S. ("Ned") McIntosh of the New York Herald Tribune, thought they had found the dark horse of the Republican Convention in short, swart Joseph William Martin Jr., able minority leader of the House of Representatives. From Topeka, Kans., where Nominee Alf Landon performed the same function in 1936, Joe Martin keynoted at the famed Republican Kansas Day rally. Messrs. Hagerty & McIntosh reported that Republican leaders from all over...
After the tea, Mrs. Roosevelt will go to President Conant's for a dinner which the Nieman Fellows will attend in place of the weekly get-together, usually held at the Harvard Club. Mrs. Roosevelt, author of the syndicated column "My Day," will talk shop with the newspapermen after dinner...
...article, "Quest for Wisdom," tells the experiences of the first nine newspapermen to receive the scholarships donated by the late Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman, widow of the publisher of the Milwaukee Journal, in their "one big academic splurge...
...University received us with the greatest kindness and interest, yet, it was apparent, not without a certain apprehension," says Hopkins. "The Nieman Fellowships were a new departure in academic procedure and no one knew how newspapermen would adjust themselves to life at Harvard, nor how wide might be the gap between the points of view of journalist and scholar...
...soon demonstrated that there was no insuperable gap between newspapermen and university teachers. Many of the faculty were as much interested in our experiences as we were in their ideas; the very differences between us proved to be the basis for numerous friendships, and on every side we met with a cordial reception...