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...guests on their arrival at the dock, he commands, "Smile, or whatever you people do for a living." It is ironic that Welch, the worst of the performers, should give the most incisive critique of the film. Arriving at the airport, she and her husband are beseiged by prying newspapermen. Her annoyed husband (Ian McShane) deftly shifts the bag he is carrying and belts an offending photographer in the jaw, knocking him down. Sensitive Raquel is affected. "Why can't we just go on a vacation like normal people?" Indeed...
...interpreted in a broad sense, Nieman Fellowships have gone almost exclusively to reporters and editors of the print press. Within this category, certain newspapers and magazines have had a constant relationship with the Nieman program. For example, Pinkerton says, "the South, decade after decade, kicks up more interesting newspapermen than any part of the country," and they are amply represented in the ranks of Nieman alumni...
Smiling easily, she never lost her professional detachment, despite the obbligato of snarling drills and hammering as workmen put the finishing touches on the theater. Local newspapermen, wistfully recalling her public pyrotechnics of 20 years ago and hoping for more of the same, groaned in frustration at her low-keyed manner during rehearsals. One reporter disguised himself as a soldier in the chorus in order to get a story...
...want to stay at Harvard-- and neither government nor Harper's (why not the Atlantic, for heaven's sake?) is the place for a young gentleman--you should look for another job. Have you ever thought of being a House Master? Or, better--I'm told all these newspapermen come to Harvard each year as Nieman Fellows. Surely they need someone to take care of them...
...ideas they had were sound and the Herald's editors were remarkably free of the illusions and delusions about their profession which mark some of their colleagues. "Good newspapering" was the goal and that meant an accurate, entertaining, well laid-out edition written for its readers--not for other newspapermen or for the reporters' sources. Charlie Ball, the imaginative City Editor, once tried to have the comma keys removed from the office typewriters when a tendency appeared among reporters to describe through strings of adjectives rather than through verbs...