Word: newspaperman
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Drew Pearson once remarked that his job as a newspaperman was "to spur the lazy, watch the weak and expose the corrupt." For 37 years, until his death of a heart attack last week at 71, Pearson took on that task with the zeal of a cub reporter and earned for himself more controversy than any other journalist of his time. In the view of his admirers, he provided extra-constitutional checks and balances against negligence, incompetence and malfeasance by public officials. From detractors, he prompted unprintable epithets and paroxysms of billingsgate. A Tennessee Senator was once moved to fury...
...went down and got up and I was hit again, in the hip. I got up and ran, and I was hit under the armpit." Of the 30 victims, 28 were hit in the side or back, including the three dead students. This story was corroborated by a newspaperman, a fireman, and a highway patrolman who did not shoot. No cops were injured by gunfire; only one was hurt, by a flying piece of wood. Indeed, it seemed improbable that a crowd of college students, even if armed, would attack a fully armed group of policemen who also had about...
...certain cornball, period flavor, it simply seems to add relish to a high-spirited and persistently amusing evening. The Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in the Chicago of the 1920s is the liveliest public relations handout ever issued on the newspaper game. It makes a newspaperman seem like a combination of knight, sleuth, adventurer and liquored-up, hard-bitten prince of the realm - the Fourth Estate seen in the guise of the First Estate...
...become almost as hallowed a symbol of the American way as the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, its neighbors across Philadelphia's Independence Square. With the outbreak of World War II, the country-and the Post-took on a more serious air. Ben Hibbs, a former Kansas newspaperman and editor of Country Gentleman, who took over the Post in 1942, deployed a staff of crack war correspondents. He also changed the fiction-nonfiction ration from 70-30 to 30-70, shortened the articles, and struck a crisp, bright tone throughout. But when postwar American society and American journalism began...
...clock, you polish up the handle on the big front door. And you marry the boss's daughter." Sulzberger did just that. In 1917 the young Columbia graduate married Iphigene Ochs, the only child of Times Publisher Adolph Ochs, who had wanted his daughter to marry a newspaperman to perpetuate the dynasty. Sulzberger had no journalistic experience, but swiftly proved himself to be an ingenious and resourceful executive, first as an assistant to the general manager, than as vice president, and finally, in 1935, as the paper's fourth publisher. Under his stewardship, the Times brightened its pages...