Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starting out as a reporter on the Austin Statesman while he was still at the University of Texas, White joined the A.P. in 1926, had become its general night editor in Manhattan headquarters before he went off to cover the war in Europe. Says he: "A newspaperman's life is a good career for the man who's really disinterested, whose aim is to explain facts, whose temperament is detached." One of the first dailies to start Columnist White on his new career last week was the conservative Washington Star (circ. 254,992), which signed...
...find the answer, ex-Newspaperman Bob Billings plays the role of public-relations aide and apprentice Faust to a Mephistopheles named Hank Haislip. When Haislip makes a power lunge...
...large extent the Monitor's excellence derives from Editor Erwin Dain Canham, 53, veteran newspaperman who has little but scorn for the artificial "objectivity" that cloaks the superficiality of much news writing. Says "Spike" Canham: "We believe that the balancing fact should be attached directly to the misleading assertion. News interpretation, with all its hazards, is often safer and wiser than printing the bare news alone. Nothing can be more misleading than the unrelated fact, just because it is a fact and hence impressive." Example: during the rise of the late Joe McCarthy, the Monitor...
...Russia, for its international coverage. With seven "overseas" bureaus -the Monitor considers "foreign" a derogatory word-it has one of the best-seasoned corps of foreign correspondents in the business. Explains British-born, 25-year London Staffer John May: "What I write, they print-and for almost any newspaperman, this is a consummation devoutly to be wished for and less and less likely to be consummated...
Wrote Sir Hugh: "This is the culmination of a whispering campaign put about, I am sure, by my brothers. They say to any newspaperman who will listen that I am a sort of wild half-wit brought up on the Cornish moors . . . They suggest that I was shuffled off overseas because I was clearly unfit to follow their pursuits of the law and politics." Actually, insisted Sir Hugh, he had won as many scholastic honors as an undergraduate at Cambridge as his brothers had when they were up at Oxford. "As to the gypsies," wrote the Cyprus governor, "well...