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...Newspapermen who have left their peace-time jobs for war service will be eligible for Nieman Fellowships in journalism this year, the Nieman Foundation announced yesterday...
This action was taken to permit qualified newspapermen, leaving the armed forces, to apply for a year of study with-out first re-establishing themselves in newspaper work. This will enable competent journalists to have a year at College between their discharge from the service and their resumption of writing...
...Chinese High Command had warm words of praise last week for Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. It had helped slow the Japanese thrust into Shensi. But the General was in no mood to praise or be praised. He called in American and Chinese newspapermen to hear harsh news: thieves and gangsters in "both organized and unorganized bands" were hampering the operations of his air force...
...Newspapermen found the usual "Vatican sources" more informative. Said one: Flynn described to the Pope religious conditions in Russian-occupied Lithuania, Poland, Rumania and Hungary, and explained Stalin's views on Catholics in these countries. Some sort of working agreement between the Vatican and Russia was discussed. Perhaps the details would be left to another intermediary-for instance, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York...
During the depression Davis made two profitable discoveries: 1) that good newspapermen are usually bad businessmen, and 2) that good businessmen who don't know the first thing about newspapering often itch to run a paper. Mixing this knowledge with a gift of the gab, he has since juggled millions of dollars worth of newspaper investments in Miami, New Orleans, Chattanooga, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis and points between and beyond...