Word: rosenthaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosenthal is the son of a reluctant house painter, a Russian immigrant who was forced to give up fur trapping and trading in Canada and move to the Bronx during the Depression.
"As a teenager, Rosenthal suffered from osteomyelitis, a bone disease, walking at times with crutches or a cane. The disease forced him to drop out of school for two years. After one operation, he was erroneously told he would never walk again, but he regained the use of his legs...
In 1943, after working on his campus newspaper, Rosenthal became City College correspondent for The Times for $12 a week. Soon--as was customary for neophyte Times reporters in those days--Rosenthal was attending church services and writing brief accounts of the sermons. He was a full-fledged staff member...
Eight years later, Rosenthal began what has since been frequently described as a brilliant career as a foreign correspondent. According to Times chronicler Gay Talese, the extreme poverty Rosenthal found in India gave the Bronx correspondent a sense of nagging discomfort and guilt about his comparative affluence.
It was then on to Poland for the red-hot reporter. But not for long, as he was expelled from that country in 1959. Rosenthal says now that the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs told him they did not challenge the accuracy of his stories, but that he had "written...