Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the men scheduled to speak to the course members this summer, are Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; George P. Brockway, president of W. W. Norton Company, Inc.; August Fruge, director of the University of California Press; Margaret Smith, fiction editor of Mademoiselle; Maurice Dolbier, Book Reviewer and columnist on the New York Herald-Tribune; Donald Kingsley, president of the Hous Magazine Institute...
Column of Whimsy. In the Orient, competition among syndicates and news services has cut prices so low that Berrigan can afford to give his 3,500 readers the biggest names in the business: the Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters; Editorial Cartoonist Herblock; Columnists Art Buchwald, Sylvia Porter, Walter Lippmann and Joe Alsop; Pogo and Steve Canyon comics. Berrigan runs no editorials, explains: "We give the news and let intelligent readers form their own opinions...
...junior college in Bakersfield, worked restlessly as a factory hand in Detroit, schoolteacher in Colorado and a social worker in California, then started to make his way around the world as a freelance writer. In 1939 he landed in Shanghai flat-broke and wangled a job with the United Press. Except for brief trips back to the U.S., he has been in the Orient ever since. He spent two years reporting the Sino-Japanese War, then moved to Bangkok shortly before Pearl Harbor. When Thailand meekly surrendered to the Japanese, Berrigan's Thai friends hustled him aboard the last...
Last week Gleason was gleefully passing around a story sent out by the local bureau of United Press International, which had bought the fake interview as the cool truth, and forthwith dispatched it without credit to Gleason's column. Said the U.P.I, story: "San Francisco's famed 'beatsters' are shaving off their beards, Jazz Musician Shorty Pederstein explains, 'The beard has lost its effect and is now respectable. To wear a beard is no distinction. Not to wear a beard is the strongest pattern of nonconformity...
...over Japan were seven objects now officially classified as unexportable "Important Cultural Assets," only one cut below "National Treasure." (But even with Japan's leading Haniwa expert, Professor Fumio Miki, on watch, two examples had to be withdrawn as suspected fakes after the catalogue had gone to press...