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...very important for us to have more Washington newspapermen qualified to write on economic subjects, including complicated issues of public finance and world trade," explains Robertson, who is studying here under the aegis of the Nieman foundation. "There are too many in Washington," he continues, "who can handle only some of our public issues from the political angle, as they would a local story on machine politics...
According to the veteran journalist, who has spent 20 years in the field, these men will be needed "to analyze and explain to the public the proposals worked out after the war for achieving world peace and making our economic machine function." "Newspapermen," he believes, "need four important assets: a good working knowledge of the profession, an inquisitive mind, a cynical skepticism, and an ability to write plain English...
...seventh annual group of Nieman fellows, consisting of one weekly newspaper editor, eight daily newsmen, and one magazine editor, is equipping itself to deal with post-war problems. The newspapermen average three courses each in Government and Economics, although the subjects of other courses range from Lyric Poetry to Astronomy...
That Was No Lady. In Los Angeles, newspapermen and photographers sped to the Army's Birmingham General Hospital, demanded "Where are the gals?"; received the puzzled reply "What gals?"; chorused "Didn't you say you were getting in the first lady casualties?" "Hell, no," said the medicos, "we said the first arrival of Leyte casualties...
...hordes of prewar tourists and expatriates who flocked from the U.S. to forgather on the banks of the Seine, a copy of the Herald was a breath from home, almost as good as meeting an old friend from Milwaukee at the Ritz Bar. To hundreds of young newspapermen, a year or two on the Herald staff meant a finishing course in elementary journalism and a lifetime of nostalgia. In city rooms and editorial sanctums all over the U.S. there are oldtimers ready at the drop of a Martini to reminisce about the Herald's drafty, dingy shop...