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Luce possessed a kind of clairvoyance about history, a journalist's instinct but operating in a higher orbit than journalism usually achieves. Along with Hadden, he saw that America after the Great War was in a state of change that would create a natural audience for the kind of magazine they had in mind. The nation's cultural center of gravity was shifting. A newly emergent, restless urban middle class--often intellectually and socially insecure--was getting into business, making money, buying things...
...want Chambers back at the magazine. Some of his friends, citing his forthright testimony in the trial, thought he should be allowed back. But Luce said: "A converted Communist on the staff? That's fine. But a man who spied against America?" Much as he admired Chambers as a journalist, he couldn't tolerate that...
...course, in the back-stabbing worlds of politics and entertainment, some-one is always looking to leak a story to get back at a rival or boss. As a result, Drudge doesn't lack for content. In the two years since opening the Drudge Report, this vigilante journalist has broken many hot stories, including the selection of Jack Kemp as Bob Dole's running mate and the Monica Lewinsky scandal...
Nothing revolutionary about a journalist moving to the small screen from print or other media, you might say. But Drudge is a very unusual journalist, if he is a journalist...
DIED. MARTHA GELLHORN, 89, war correspondent, novelist and, only incidentally, Ernest Hemingway's third wife; in London. Gellhorn's dispatches, first filed during the Spanish Civil War and continuing through World War II and Vietnam, focused on the ordinary and powerless. An avid traveler and prolific journalist, she also wrote novels and short stories. Gellhorn married Hemingway in 1940. She left him five years later, the only one of his four wives to do so. He reportedly remained bitter for the rest of his life, and she remained irritated for being best known as his former wife...