Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this critical sense it was not a new career at all, but a postscript to four decades of preaching as well as practicing good journalism. For Newspaperman Lindstrom, no audience was too small or too large-a single Times reporter or the American Society of Newspaper Editors, of which Lindstrom was long an officer. Before such listeners and before lecture audiences the country over, he took clear and frequent aim at the challenges and weaknesses of his own profession...
Summing up, Judge Douglas put the issue in a way that made many a newspaperman cringe. Said he: "We have here a case which is a clash between the code of the newspaper fraternity and the law of the land as I conceive it to be." Most members of the fraternity could not help feeling that the code, at least in this case, was spattered by some embarrassing stains...
Homecoming. Returning to Germany to cover the Nürnberg trials as a newspaperman, moved on to Berlin as press attache of the Norwegian military mission. Surveying divided Berlin, he decided: "It is better to be the only democrat in Germany, where democracy is unknown, than one of many in Norway, where everybody understands it." The late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter took Brandt under his wing. Soon Brandt, regaining his German citizenship, became a member of the West German Bundestag (Lower House) in Bonn, president of the West Berlin house of representatives (city parliament), and last year West Berlin...
...British diplomat husband.) The "visitors" of the title -Americans and Britons engaged in the black art of propaganda-never had it so good. Larry Purdoe is editor of the Voice of Britain, his assistant is a non-U type called Herbert Wragg, and their American friend is a newspaperman named Abe Schulman ("definitely a good type"). They have the whisky, the candy, the penicillin and the supreme good luck of not being totally at the mercy of the people's police...
Meanwhile, Harvard captain Bob Shaunessy was also getting into the act. "It seems to me," said Shag to a newspaperman, "that Yale doesn't always only beat you. Sometimes it likes to twist the knife a little." The big Crimson tackle was, perhaps, thinking of that memorable moment in the fourth quarter of last year's game when Olivar sent in his first team with the Eli point total already past...