Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Familiar Approach. In the press gallery above, Political Columnist Stanley Uys of the Johannesburg Sunday Times watched the messenger elbow his way through milling Assemblymen and approach Verwoerd. "I thought he was going to pat Dr. Verwoerd on the back," said Uys. "I thought he was being excessively familiar. Then I saw the knife...
That the Times wanted Kerr was not surprising either. In an effort to improve its reviews, the paper had hired Stanley Kauffmann away from the New Republic only eight months before, but Kauffmann never quite succeeded in adjusting to daily journalism. Now he will return to the New Republic as associate literary editor, and talk about "The Art of the Film" on TV. "It's not so much letting Mr. Kauffmann go as asking Mr. Kerr to come in," said Executive Editor Turner Catledge, who admits to having approached Kerr twice before. "Kerr seems to suit the New York...
Irksome though he finds it to be party to such legerdemain, Fannie Mae's taciturn president, J. Stanley Baughman, explains simply: "We do what we have to do." Pittsburgh-born Baughman, an up-through-the-ranks federal careerist since 1933, made his mark among mortgage men by turning the depression-born Home Owners' Loan Corp. from a money loser into a profit maker. Taking over Fannie Mae in 1950, he tightened up loose operating procedures, chopped his staff while the work load doubled, won a reputation as an administrator who could say no without ruffling too many tempers...
...Herald was a lively penny paper that taught U.S. journalism to hunger for fresh news. The Herald sent boatloads of reporters to meet arriving ships at sea; by the time a ship landed they had already interviewed the passengers for European news. And it was the Herald that sent Stanley after Livingstone. Greeley's Tribune, on the other hand, was urbane, circumspect, and an influential voice in the infant Republican Party-though not so Republican that it could not find room from 1851 to 1861 for a London correspondent named Karl Marx...
Never a Cipher. In the halcyon 1930s, Geoffrey Parsons was the city's most influential editorial writer; Stanley Woodward ran the best sports page in the business. The city editor was that celebrated Texan Stanley Walker, whom many consider the alltime champion in that trade. Walker issued just two ukases: "Do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade." But he could make some pointed suggestions. A correspondent whose copy lacked enough punctuation once received a full typed page of commas. And in his book, City Editor, Walker wrote, "Pick adjectives as you would pick a diamond...