Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stone, Washington correspondent for PM and "sometime columnist" for The Nation and Joseph W. Alsop '32, New York Herald Tribune writer, last night converged on the Marshall Plan from two different angles, roughed it around, and finally designated it as the only possible solution for world tension...
There are very few jobs in radio, compared with the demand, explained Adolph J. Schneider of the National Broadcasting Company. In his own office, "a man needs 10 to 15 years of newspaper work before qualifying as a script writer...
Newsman McGuire wormed a confirmation out of Joe. According to Joe, Nelson had taken him to the wake of a prominent political writer. There he had introduced him to many legislators. All of them, said Joe, told him that if it were not for Rags, he wouldn't be getting that big check...
...lead: "University of Washington scientists reported today experiments have shown that microplankton organisms act as radioactivity 'carriers' in Bikini waters, keeping the waters radioactive." How many readers, asked Dr. Flesch, know what "microplankton organisms" are? The same story was turned over to the A.P. science writer, Howard W. Blakeslee, to Flesch out. His version: "Discovery of the missing links that will spread dangerous atomic bomb atoms to human beings was reported today at the University of Washington...
After graduation, he joined the editorial staff of an encyclopedia where he developed the card-file memory and catch-all curiosity that are often watermarks of the great essayists. Shifting to the New York Evening Post as editorial writer and columnist, Strunsky became editor of its editorial page by 1920. When Cyrus H. K. Curtis bought the paper and started telegraphing editorials 'from Philadelphia, Strunsky "stepped into the subway one day and came on uptown" to the Times...