Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crime in 1904, once said that he'd like to see a straight news sheet in New York City--one carrying all the news but no editorials. In retrospect, the Service News provided a testing ground for that project, and the test wasn't entirely successful. Practically any newspaperman will admit that complete impartiality is unattainable, and a few instances will illustrate that the Service News occassionally slipped off its tight-rope...
...newspaperman in Australia, and later in Canada, Bolwell has covered every kind of athletic event from tandem cycling to surfboat racing, and has himself been an active amateur athlete most of his life. A former cricketer, track star and Australian football player, he now concentrates on his aggressive tennis game and on encouraging his ten-year-old son Farley-a prospect, says Bolwell, for the 1980 Olympic swimming team...
Exactly who is Spiro Theodore Agnew and why is he saying all those terrible things about radic-libs? Jules Witcover, Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, addresses himself to these questions like a good newspaperman: patiently, in detail. His trusting assumption is that if a biographer provides a reader with a politician's record, he is finally giving...
Novelist-Reporter Paul Ferris, who started on a Northcliffe paper in Wales, respects his subject-as any newspaperman should. Northcliffe had "the arrogance of the natural journalist, that what interested him would interest his readers." That he made millions proving it was incidental. After the Wright Brothers' first European flight, he raged at his editors for the four-line paragraph they had given it. "Didn't they realize England was no longer an island...
Coles found things that will startle the liberal scholar and the doctrinaire radical alike. He found black fathers of strength in a supposedly matriarchical ghetto and he found a Washington cabdriver from West Virginia who wanted his son to become a newspaperman and hated arrogant bureaucrats who didn't tip him. He found little children with the same dreams as their peers in Winnetka and Newton, and he sorrowed because he knew their dreams would be destroyed. But above all he found complexity. He found that people who may never have heard of the New York Times...