Word: timesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cortesi was schooled in Italy and England, became something of a scholar and a connoisseur of wines. He learned to like the cafe life of Rome, and the way Mussolini's trains ran on time. Leftwingers loudly accused the Times of employing a Fascist apologist; and even other Timesmen rebutted him on occasion...
Indicted for spreading such septic falsehoods were: New York Timesmen George Axelsson, Harold Callender, Raymond Daniell, the Baltimore Sun's Paul W. Ward, Pundits Dorothy Thompson. Constantine Brown, William Phillips Simms, "the known pro-Fascist paper the New York World-Telegram...
...responsible for the "melancholy exhibition" are two top Timesmen, both wild radicals by comparison with their staid predecessors. Bald, well-tailored Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward, 53, editor since 1941, is a deceptively mild-appearing man who gives "first place to second thoughts." The man who wrote the offending editorial on British policy in Greece, and ten like it since, has been on the Times only four months- but he is regarded as the most up & coming journalist in Fleet Street. He is able, amiable Donald Tyerman, 36, accountant's son who has been partly paralyzed since...
Last week the Timesmen were undaunted by Churchill's growl. So long as they continue to be, Britons will read the Times, to learn not what the Government says but what the Government must reply...
Even to most Timesmen, Strunsky is little known. He inhabits a paneled office on the Times building's hushed, neo-Gothic tenth floor, sacred to editorial writers and the library, and referred to by reporters in the bustling city room on the third floor as "Heaven." He summers in New Canaan, Conn., winters on Fifth Avenue, lives almost wholly for his work...