Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ross began life as a newspaperman. His first job, at 14, was that of a reporter for the Salt Lake City Tribune, and one of his early assignments was to interview the madam of a house of prostitution. "Always self-conscious and usually uncomfortable in the presence of all but his closest women friends," writes Thurber, "the young reporter began by saying to the bad woman (he divided the other sex into good and bad), 'How many fallen women do you have...
...real antiques being the saloons. In these is preserved a way of life that belongs more to a village than a metropolis. The "El" that protected this enclave like a leaky umbrella was a symbol of that way of life; its antiquary, interpreter and poet was a sometime newspaperman named John McNulty...
...abroad at the way Ghana's government has been trampling on civil rights (TIME, Sept. 30), but Nkrumah is. Last week he tactfully gave ground. A lawyer down from London was allowed to challenge the expulsion of two Moslem opposition leaders. Contempt-of-court charges against a British newspaperman were dropped. Nkrumah pleaded for international sympathy: "Do not apply to us standards of conduct and efficiency which are often not attained in your own countries...
...Newspaperman's Newspaper. Last week, plainly in need of stronger medicine, the Herald Tribune was about to get the biggest pick-me-up in its 116-year history (all accompanied by the adjectival drumbeating of Tex McCrary Inc., the radio-TV performer's public-relations outfit). Though it has owned the paper outright ever since Brownie's grandfather Whitelaw took over the old Tribune in 1872, the Reid family decided to reorganize its closed corporation as a Delaware stock company in order to bring in outside capital, lined up several potential investors. To London last week went...
With the promise of new capital came an assurance that the Herald Tribune would again cultivate its biggest asset: the tradition of serious, independent journalism that started with Founder Horace Greeley and under the late Publisher Ogden Reid Sr. earned the paper the reputation of being a newspaperman's newspaper.* In support of this aim, the Trib plans to add up to 16 columns to its news space and put its emphasis on the first rather than the second half of Brownie Reid's credo: "More News in Less Time...