Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest in Jordan's unsettled condition. Arab leaders, to a man, suspect that Israel longs to expand to the Jordan River, thus absorbing most of the old Palestine, encompassing all of Jerusalem, and gaining a more defensible eastern frontier. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion confided to an English newspaperman that if there was to be any change in Jordan's status, Israel would like to see the west bank of the Jordan River demilitarized and guarded by U.N. troops. In the course of a Knesset debate last week, Ben-Gurion would only add: "All President Nasser knows...
Born. To William Pettus Hobby Jr., 26, newspaperman, son of former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Gulp Hobby and ex-Governor of Texas (1917-21) William Hobby, and Diana Stallings Hobby, 27, daughter of Playwright Laurence (What Price Glory) Stallings: their first child, a daughter; in Houston. Name: Laura Poteet...
...which may be well and good and true in the particular case involved. Its truth, though, is not self-evident in a general application. With-out any statutory protection of confidential sources, any newspaperman may, under the logic of the opinion, be forced to reveal evidence which is not "of doubtful relevance or materiality" to a case. To a newspaper, at least, such logic is arguable...
Last week, when news of Jim McConaughy's death saddened Capitol Hill, Senator after Senator arose to pay him tribute as man and newsman. Said Acting Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "He was a great newspaperman, a good friend." And TIME's Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce spoke for us all in mourning Jim McConaughy: "He was dedicated to the service of his country and of truth...
John Fox was everything a newspaperman should not be. Under the name Washington Waters he wrote a financial column with some of history's most thunderously wrong predictions, e.g., that the Korean war would be a good time to sell short because of a falling market. A frenetic promoter, he once called in his ad manager and announced: "I've got an idea that will knock the Jews in this town on their butts. We're going to send cows to Israel." He got Bernard Goldfine to donate the first cow toward a project that fell flat...