Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Style is irrelevant to the good newspaperman. He fights his battles on the editorial page, with ink on paper, one dimension only. His style is not a part of his fight. He lives in the way that best enables him to maintain contacts, to gather information, to report the news. He pooh-poohs questions like which side are you on. In the battleground of Mississippi, where those words are on everybody's lips, the good newspaperman alienates half his readers with every sentence...
...ceiling. He complained to Bliss, who said he would look into the matter. Next morning, Kovac came to work, found that a crude refinishing job had been done on his desk: some of the jimmy marks had been removed, but others remained. Whereupon Kovac called a Columbus newspaperman and spilled the whole story. Kovac also denied that he was joining the Free Society Association...
Truman hit Baruch where he was most vulnerable, for Baruch wanted-and usually got-a good press. A Who's Who of acquaintances streamed to his Manhattan house and to Hobcaw Barony, his 17,000-acre plantation near Georgetown, S.C., and there was generally a newspaperman in the crowd. If not, the press would usually get a tip from the late Herbert Bayard Swope, famed, dynamic executive editor of the old New York World, and for nearly 40 years both friend and public relations counsel to Baruch...
...became a newspaperman as a 14-year-old sophomore in high school. Except for a brief disappearance in 1946 when he journeyed illegally from Poland to Palestine disguised as a Jewish immigrant (and on the way sat in on a Neuremberg Trial), he's been a journalist ever since. In one year he worked on four different papers without losing...
...Ford Foundation has given Harvard a $1.2 million grant to double the number of Nieman Fellowships. Currently, the Nieman program allows eight professional newspaperman to spend a year studying at the University...