Word: rebecca
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...records). Most TIME cover stories are written and edited by the regular staffs of the section in which they appear. Certain cover stories, that present special difficulties or call for a special literary skill, are written by Senior Editor Whittaker Chambers. Some Chambers cover stories: Marian Anderson, Arnold Toynbee, Rebecca West, this week's Niebuhr story...
While being all things to all men, Runyon succeeded in always keeping his spotlight fixed on the central characters, and his lurid descriptions of them still retain their vitality. But, compared with the cool, intelligent journalism of Trial Reporter Rebecca West, Runyon's reporting is sensationalism cooked to Hearstian taste. Time has dulled the edge of the slangy, informal jargon that won Runyon so many admirers, and his dramatic exclamations pale into mere verbosity when Mrs. Snyder is asked "Why did you kill your husband?" and gives the utterly simple reply...
...popular lecturer and radio commentator, received the accolade of the Left when he was dropped by NBC last year because, in pinko PM's opinion at least, he was "too liberal." Now, St. John has written one of the longest (210,000 words) studies of Yugoslavia since Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...
...feature Rebecca West who has written so much trash! Nobody reads her junk-except those who think it fashionable due to the false publicity your magazine makes the public swallow...
Thanks for the splendid cover story on Rebecca West [TIME, Dec. 8]. . . . However, I think you did the good lady an injustice by failing to mention her coverage of the mass lynch trials at Greenville, S.C., last spring. . . . Not only was her writing style superb, but as a reporter she dug up facts that none of the rest of us were able to uncover, angles that we of the deadline-plagued, spot-news journalism missed in passing...