Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Real Enemy. Author Fred Majdalany, a British newspaperman, fought at Cassino (with the Lancashire Fusiliers) and has already used it as the scene of a novel (The Monastery). His descriptions of tactics and close-in fighting are masterly, his assessment of the principals sometimes harsh. He censures Winston Churchill for repeated interference with the generals in the field, and he charges U.S. General Mark Clark with publicity-seeking, buck-passing, and an inferiority complex. His favorites are Britain's General Sir Harold Alexander ("the embodiment of all that is most admired in the English character") and the U.S. commander...
...Angeles in the headiest heyday of the city and of Hearst newspapering. Hired at 19 by Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (for $7.50 a week). Canadian-born Richardson shrewdly plied the creed he learned as a cub on the old Winnipeg Telegram: "Walk like a newspaperman...
Swaggering Newspaperman Richardson assiduously cultivated his sources, righteously used them to sniff out corruption, solve crimes, dredge up scandal. In 1924, after finding a missing friend for Hearst's famed Editorialist Arthur Brisbane, Star Reporter Richardson found himself, at 30, the Hearst chain's youngest city editor. Then he drank himself out of his first Hearst career in less than four years, spent the next four lurching from despised publicity jobs to outright handouts. Asked what he had done between 1932 and 1936, Richardson once rasped: "I was drunk...
...Potting Shed has been billed as a "suspense drama" and a "mystery thriller." Both terms are quite accurate. But the play is not a whodunit; it is rather a whatdidhe. It concerns James Callifer, who, good newspaperman that he is, tries to ferret out the story of what happened in the potting shed 30 years ago--something so traumatic that it blanked out all memories of his pre-adolescence and caused both him and his uncle to be shunned by the rest of his family...
While many businessmen will talk willingly with the rare newspaperman who comes around, they know they do not have to: most business sections will uncritically print all the company handouts that fit (sometimes even tacking on a staffer's byline). Says an Atlanta businessman of his home-town papers: "They print our handouts like gospel. We could send them a monstrous lie, and they'd print it without question...