Word: rosten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rosten's poll of Washington correspondents ranked the Tribune next to the Hearst press as "least fair and reliable" of all U.S. newspapers. That poll reflected the Tribune's savage anti-Roosevelt angling of news. Meantime its isolationist -propaganda -as-news-unsurpassed for furious bias since frontier journalism -has probably qualified the Tribune for first rank in any like poll in 1941. Alone among U.S. newspapers since 1933, the Tribune has got its papers burned in public bonfires, its offices rotten-egged. Also unique is the range of hatred for the Tribune: it cuts across all class lines...
Hollywood, accustomed to the spotlight, was last week Xrayed. In the best book ever written about Hollywood.* Author Leo Calvin Rosten, 33, who also writes under the name of Leonard Q. Ross, and his staff of social scientists published the product of three years' work (financed by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations...
...book rakes no muck. Its job is merely to ungild the lily and count its petals. Such subjects as the economics of picture making, Hollywood guilds and labor problems, censorship and the Hays Office, Rosten leaves for a later volume. He says little here about the mass of the 30,000 movie workers and movie makers who live ordinary lives on ordinary incomes. The picture he offers is of the movie colony (producers, actors, directors, writers) and its elite-some 250 people, most of whom earn $75,000 or more a year...
...history of Washington press coverage was told last week in a thorough, readable, thoughtful book* by 37-year-old Delbert Clark, manager for the last eight years of the New York Times's Washington bureau. Less sociological than Leo Rosten's The Washington Correspondents, his book traces the astounding growth of the Washington press corps from the period when two Congressional stenographers served as part-time reporters, to the present when more than 500 elite newsmen enjoy semiofficial status. It does not spare correspondents' vanities and irresponsibilities nor "official efforts to conceal the unpalatable truth." Some...
...Republican committee with bright-eyed Robert Montgomery as chairman. Democratic National Committeewoman Helen Gahagan (songstress wife of Melvyn Douglas) was rounding up Roosevelt votes with the help of sinister Edward G. Robinson, serene Douglas Fairbanks Jr. National defense got its call with the arrival from Washington of prying Leo Rosten (alias Leonard Q. Ross), essayist and humorist, who was recently appointed "special consultant" to the consumers' division of the NDAC. Rosten may soon be officially stationed in Hollywood, where he has spent the last 18 months preparing a treatise on the movie industry. But this time he came...