Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Julie Harris in Johnny Belinda. ¶The editors' choices of the best current books, as well as TIME'S own bestseller list (what makes the best reading and the best selling will only occasionally coincide). The bestseller list is compiled from weekly wired reports by TIME correspondents in 22 U.S. cities, collated according to a statistical system of weighting (by sales volume) the bookstores polled. The list will report the news of what the nation is reading, more speedily and sensitively than other leading bestseller lists...
...cities, and as terror bombing deliberately sought innocent victims, the French army in response resorted to measures that outraged the world. When the rebels in August 1955 massacred 70 European settlers, including women and children, the French, adopting the doctrine of "collective responsibility," razed ten Algerian villages. In a report, which...
...much did Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo pay Lawyer Morris Ernst and his associates for their report absolving Trujillo in the Galindez-Murphy murders (TIME, July 29, 1957)? The figure, as announced by the Justice Department: $562,855.39 in fees and expenses, one of the largest payoffs ever reported under the Foreign Agents Registration...
Labor's committee on Education published a lengthy report last summer. Instead of thunderous denunciations of tuition institutions, it made sensible recommendations for strengthening the spotty government-supported school system. But thunder was in the air, and at last week's Labor Party Conference (see FOREIGN NEWS) it boomed deafeningly...
Peart's oratory-aimed at preventing ratification of the education committee's report as part of the next Labor platform -ignored facts that, as a minority member of the education committee, he knew as well as his listeners. Scholarship programs ensure public-school education for brilliant sons of the poor; and while the fee-charging schools have always been centers of privilege, snobbery is less important than the fact that they provide Britain's best pre-university education...