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Almost without exception the newspapermen state a wish to take a course of study which will enable them to understand and interpret current developments in labor, government finance, New Deal legislation, and federal regulation of business and agriculture...
...list of Franklin Roosevelt's noteworthy qualifications for his difficult job, one that should not be overlooked is his amazing capacity for sustaining the antics which Washington's otherwise highly judicious newspapermen consider to be comic. Rated according to ordinary standards, many a quarter-hour of the semiannual Gridiron Club shows displays a lack of grace, pertinence and dexterity sufficient to horrify the least critical beholder. Gridiron Club high jinks are by no means the only such doings by which the President's endurance is regularly tested. Last week, his principal social relaxation after five working days...
Thunder & Lightning. Henry Robinson Luce and Briton Hadden were great & good friends who had been to Hotchkiss School and Yale together, had been editors of their undergraduate papers, had been cub newspapermen. While reporters on the late Frank Munsey's Baltimore News, they conceived the newsmagazine idea and set out to found TIME...
...AMERICAN-Frazier Hunt- Simon & Schuster ($3). Latest addition to the crop of newspapermen's reminiscences, containing somewhat stereotyped portraits of many of the world's great, somewhat stereotyped editorial philosophizing about current affairs ("So America marched toward the horizon of her doom") but revealing a warm, unaffected personality emerging from its clusters of cliches...
Fortnight ago Harvard University announced it would spend the late Mrs. Lucius William Nieman's $1,000,000 bequest "to elevate journalism" by allotting Harvard fellowships to 15 working newspapermen each year (TIME, Jan. 24). First reaction of the publishing business was enthusiastically favorable. Last week two extremely unlike dissenters spoke up late but loud...