Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the special committee which made the survey of the Foundation have been appointed to the advisory committee. They are: Geoffrey Parsons, chief editorial writer of the New York Herald Tribune; Sevellon Brown, publisher of the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal; Canham; Hodding Cartor, publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi); Marquis W. Childs, Washington columnist; Mark Ethridge, publisher of the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal; Phillip L. Graham, publisher of the Washington Post; Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Denver Post; Benjamin M. McKelway, editor of the Washington Star; Robert McLean, publisher of the Philadelphia Bulletin; Reston; and Paul Smith...
...during his father's term as Resident Commissioner. He went to Georgetown Preparatory School, then began the study of law at Georgetown University. After his father's death he quit the law, before long was in New York trying to make his name as a poet and writer...
...health of U.S. Presidents. Author Wold had said flatly that F.D.R. suffered a stroke as early as 1938, and had two other strokes before the attack that ended his life. In denying all this, Anna recalled that a few days after the date of one stroke described by Writer Wold, her father had gone fishing and had landed a 235-lb. shark...
Busy Reader. The essays in What Is Literature? include a long one on the situation of the writer in various epochs. Written with Sartre's characteristic energy and the faint overtones of sounder sense that he has acquired since World War II and the French resistance, it places his own writing in the same class with the work of André Malraux and Antoine de St. Exupéry-Frenchmen of action, compelled to do their work in a time of disintegrating values when any act had to be its own justification. Thus he seems to write an apologia...
...lifetime, Nathaniel Hawthorne was known as a novelist, short-story writer, and active Democratic politician; the main event in his political career was his abrupt dismissal from a customshouse job (after charges of dishonesty, incompetence and political corruption), by order of President Zachary Taylor. He was also widely known as the enthusiastic biographer of the inept and unlucky President Franklin Pierce. Hawthorne's praise of his friend Pierce was still ringing in men's ears when Pierce's administration collapsed in fiasco...