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...debate, Spaak went to Parliament serenely ready to counterattack. When newspapermen asked him whether he intended to resign, he grinned: "The dead man is still standing up." To the deputies he cried: "Things have changed . . . Today we can shake hands with a Catholic without assuming him to be a supporter of the Inquisition or of Saint Bartholomew's massacre...
...give the story "stark realism," CBS called in two ex-newspapermen as writers: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, once of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (more recently of the Satevepost and M-G-M), and Richard Carroll, once of the New York Daily News. Their job is to make Shorty's episodes self-sufficient, but with enough continuity to hold listener interest over a week-long intermission...
Just how much is a Pulitzer Prize worth, anyway? Last week, as the judges got set to study the 1948 awards, two newspapermen took the case to the jury...
Carroll Binder, chief editorial writer of the Minneapolis Tribune, writing in the American Mercury, declared that "possession of a Pulitzer Prize does not guarantee that the holder is among the best [newspapermen]. Nor is the lack of a Pulitzer Prize evidence that a veteran newspaperman is not among the most capable or fearless." Binder put the blame for bad choices on the 13-man Pulitzer advisory board, mostly publishing executives of big newspapers. (The board meets annually at the April convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association...
...early novels. Slater wants a raid even if it means the death of Bullivant and the 23rd Corps-just so long as he gets his scoop. He bullies Bullivant into bullying the partisans. to agree to fight. His scoop is ruined when, in a farcical scene, 19 other newspapermen descend on the camp to cover the raid. Comic fiasco turns to tragedy: the partisans attack, only to suffer casualties from the Allies, who have in the meantime taken over the area. Men have died needlessly because of Slater's viciousness and Bullivant's weakness...