Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis Lautier, Atlantic Daily World Washington correspondent, and Simeon Booker, Jr., of the Cleveland Call-Post, received $250 awards for "distinguished correspondence." Nieman Fellow judges included Alan Barth, Grady E. Clay, David B. Dreiman, and E. L. Holland...
...titular head was Monte Celio's 5th Century rotunda of St. Stephen the first martyr (about 50 A.D.).* On the walls of St. Stephen's are 34 frescoes showing scenes of Christian martyrdom-St. Margaret, her breast torn with hooks; Bishop Artemius, crushed between stone slabs; Bishop Simeon cut to pieces with knives. But not all martyrdom involves death. One fresco at St. Stephen's tells of a 4th Century persecution of Christians by King Unericus in North Africa. The description reads: "Those who talked and raised their hands against the king had their tongues and hands...
...what grounds does Poet T. S. Eliot rate less than four columns when Poet Stephen Vincent Benét rates nearly seven? It would be unkind, perhaps, to grudge Simeon Strunsky and Jan Struther nearly a column and a half apiece but would it not have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column...
Well might "MacArthur wade ashore at San Simeon when he comes home," or at any other point on our shores; does Editor Edward T. Leech of the Pittsburgh Press [TIME, March 15] consider the Hearstian kiss of death any more lethal than the Pendergast kiss of death...
Here & there, the trained seals were dragging their flippers. A Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter refused to let his byline be put on his MacArthur story. On the Los Angeles Examiner, a wag cracked : "MacArthur will wade ashore at San Simeon when he comes home...