Word: rosenthai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life," somebody noted, "there's Swope." His eye was sharp, and his sense of moral outrage came easily to the boil. He was soon tapped by Joseph Pulitzer's crusading, spirited World. Fascinated by crime, he helped investigate and solve the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthai; even more fascinated by politics, he sailed for Europe in 1916 to cover Germany's side of the war, won the first Pulitzer Prize for reporting. In 1920 Swope was installed as the World's executive editor, and during eight succeeding years he made the World in his own image...
Even a Bar Mitzvah. Lanky "Long John" Phillips, 37, had started digging into Burros' background after Rosenthai got a tip from a Jewish organization. A Times feature writer for the past ten years, with a special interest in such phenomena of evangelical Christianity as glossolalia, or "speaking in tongues," Phillips soon confirmed that Burros' parents had been married in a Jewish ceremony. Another Times reporter, who speaks Yiddish, canvassed synagogues in Queens, learned that Burros had attended a Hebrew school and had celebrated his bar mitzvah...
Most U.S. newspapers are similarly prepared, though the obituary inventories vary widely, from the Boston Globe's ten entries to the New York Times's 2,000 (Ferhat Abbas to Adolph Zukor), some of them set in type. Times Metropolitan Editor Abe Rosenthai, whose responsibilities include custody of the obituary files, assigns their preparation to appropriate members of the paper's editorial staff. When President Kennedy died in Dallas, White House Correspondent Tom Wicker had on his desk, undischarged, the duty of updating the Kennedy obituary. As a new Times hand in 1946, Rosenthal himself contributed...