Word: sensationalist
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Clinics & Cars. Roy Burkhart's candor and his readiness to use clinical and psychiatric techniques in his church work have often shocked conservatives. He has been branded a cheap sensationalist for his birth-control discussions, marriage clinics and seminars on sex adjustment problems. But his methods seem to work. Out of the nearly 1,000 marriages he has performed during the past twelve years, only nine have ended in divorce...
...Less directly involved in war, but caught in its vortex, were Novelist-Biographer Stefan Zweig, dead by his own hand in Brazilian exile ("The artist has been wounded in his concentration. . . ."); sensationalist Richard Julius Herman Krebs (alias Jan Valtin, hero of under-coverman Krebs's 1941 best-seller Out of the Night), imprisoned by the Justice Department for deportation to Germany at war's end; Author Waldo ("I love Argentina. . . .") Frank, who gave a repeat performance of the mauling he received in Kentucky's Harlan County in 1932 by getting attacked by young Fascists in Buenos Aires...
John T. Whitaker is no sensationalist, but a seasoned correspondent who probably had more sound sources of information and more real friends in Italy than any other newsman who has worked there in recent years. Moreover, his account of how Germany conquered Italy was supported in many details by another able correspondent, Saville R. Davis, whose series of articles appeared simultaneously in the Christian Science Monitor. Between them they lifted a smoke screen of speculation and rumor behind which the truth about Italy has been partly hidden for the past four months...
...their contrasting characters legend has flourished ever since-Cousin Bertie McCormick, aristocratic, aloof publisher of the die-hard Republican Chicago Tribune, and Cousin Joe, masses-minded, erratic, lusty, ex-Socialist, publisher of the arch-New Deal New York Daily News. Each in his own way was a crass sensationalist. Joe got the biggest circulation in the U. S., Bertie the biggest in the Midwest. Said Friend-of-the-People Cousin Joe, onetime intimate of Bowery bums and taxi drivers: "Bertie certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march...
...mark. No. 3 press lord is Lord Camrose of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post* (700,000), a Conservative who suffers from gout and jaundice. No. 2 is Lord Rothermere. He acquired control of the Daily Mail (1.530,000) from his brother, Lord Northcliffe, a sensationalist who fathered the whole lordly breed. No. 1, by intelligence, ability, resource and his gift for the common touch-as well as by circulation figures- is William Maxwell (''Max") Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook. He is a fair little man whose possessions include the smile and manners of a spoiled bad boy, two other...