Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is equally true of any other academic field, and there are certainly fields other than science in which America's anti-intellectual tendencies stand her in bad stead. A European quoted recently in Newsweek, said that he was genuinely surprised whenever he came across an American who could discuss modern art intelligently or indeed who could do anything more than tell him how wonderful things were in the United States...
Died. Theodore Frederick Mueller, 59, publisher of Newsweek, onetime (1932-37) assistant to the president of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Inc.; following an operation; in Manhattan...
After promises of cooperation from several nearby industrial laboratories and the National Association of Science Writers, as well as from Columbia's top scientific and engineering brains, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, ex-editorial director of Newsweek, Teacher Barrett got a $70,000 initial grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a program to improve coverage of science. Barrett's program, announced last week: a series of fellowships that will give selected newsmen one free year at Columbia (plus $550 cash monthly) to broaden their knowledge and sharpen their reporting of the subject. Limited at first...
...among other matters, delivered a lecture on magazine journalism. First he "invited" his audience to read the Sept. 20 issue of U.S. News & World Report, which carried a let-him-talk. question-and-answer interview with Faubus. Then he said: "The obviously prejudiced and false reports in TIME and Newsweek will not help the situation...
Faubus named and misnamed a group of Arkansas "integrationists"' who "colored, slanted and falsified reports in TIME and Newsweek and in other publications." Concluded he of his fellow Arkansans: "They have a right to their viewpoint, but they and others have bent every effort to contact all newsmen from out of the state and to indoctrinate them with a biased and prejudiced viewpoint toward...