Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When a newspaperman strives for "objectivity"--an impossible goal if this means total detachment from his subject matter--what he truly seeks is fairness. Mailer's approach, with a couple of exceptions, in no way is intended to describe impartially the plight of human beings on the wrong (police) side of the barriers. Newspaper reporters do seek this sort of impartiality, or lack of bias--or, if you like, omniscience...
...There's an element of deathwatch in this campaign that's never been there before," said an enormously fat newspaperman from New York. A thin, soft-spoken reporter from a Boston paper joined in. "That's just it," he said. "You don't want not to be there when he gets shot...
...leaders of the new party are Kurt Bachmann, a 59-year-old Cologne journalist, and Kurt Erlebach, 46, who is also a newspaperman. Their immediate aim is to recruit 5,000 members by year's end, but most of them will probably come from the ranks of the old outlawed organization. Says Erlebach: "You don't expect us to create a Communist party from Salvation Army members, do you?" The appearance of the new Communist party poses an interlocking dilemma for the government of Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger. It can hardly suppress the National Democrats without also taking legal...
...Kleist? When Krock joined The Times, in 1927, he was al ready a leading figure in American journalism. He had been shot at while covering Kentucky elections for the Associated Press in 1909, challenged to a duel for insulting a French newspaperman in Paris in 1918 ("Somehow, I managed to crawl out of that fix"). As assistant to Publisher Ralph Pulitzer on the old New York World, he was as signed to "ride herd on Herbert Swope," the paper's imperious editor, and to take over the editorial page when Walter Lippmann was away. It was, he says...
Despite his obscurity and youth, Criswell at 36 is no stranger to politics or to Washington. He was a newspaperman before becoming former Governor J. Howard Edmondson's press secretary. He moved to Washington when Edmondson had himself appointed Senator in 1963 but was out of a job upon the Senator's defeat in a 1964 runoff primary. Jim Jones, a fellow Oklahoman working for Johnson, arranged a National Committee post. Jones was rising in status at the White House as an aide to Marvin Watson, now Postmaster General, and with his help Criswell moved up notch...