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Chronically strapped for cash, and married to a termagant wife, he takes any job that comes along. His first is reporter for an Indian "extreme-wing" publication. Sent to interview a swami called the "Sage of the Wilderness," he quickly falls under the old chap's spell. "Please, master," he asks, "utter a few words of wisdom and . . . comfort the reading classes." But the swami's brand of wisdom is P. T. Barnum's. "Canst thou," he inquires soulfully, "spare me thy trousers, thy jacket, thy shirt, thy shoes, thy cufflinks, thy watch, every accessory thou hast...
...Interview MacArthur
Last week a visiting Negro newspaperman named Stanley Roberts put their lack of reportorial enterprise to shame. Roberts, 36, Washington bureau chief of the Pittsburgh Courier, got the first published interview with MacArthur since his return to the U.S. It was not the first time Cincinnati-born Roberts has scored a newsbeat. He got the first exclusive interview with Dr. Ralph Bunche when the United Nations mediator returned from Israel, was the first to uncover the court-martial death sentence of Negro Lieut. Leon Gilbert in Korea (TIME...
Roberts got his interview by an old reporter's trick: he sent word to MacArthur that the Communist Daily Worker and some Negro papers had been calling MacArthur a "white supremacist," blaming him for Army segregation in the Far East and for "excessive" court-martialing of Negroes. Roberts asked for an interview to get MacArthur's views on the race question, and the summons came...
Until the past several years, only the Scholarship Committees have been doing much recruiting and interviewing. Set up as early as the twenties there are over 45 very active Scholarship Committees operating throughout the country. Many of these groups are giving out Harvard Club scholarships, and hence are particularly concerned about recipients full background. Von Stade, however, has already succeeded in getting the committees to interview men for Harvard College scholarships as well as for their own, a big help to both ron stade and the Admissions Committee...