Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle announced he had just appointed a committee of seven lawyers to study criminal procedure in Pennsylvania. Veteran Harrisburg Newspaperman George Her Fisher asked: "Why don't you appoint a layman on it?" Governor Earle snapped back: "O. K., you're on, George." The appointment was made official...
...Author. California-born (1900), big, blond, blue-eyed, slow-spoken John Ernest Steinbeck has been a farm hand, hod carrier, caretaker, chemist and painter's apprentice, itinerant newspaperman. At Stanford University off & on for six years, he treated it as a sort of public library where he read only what took his fancy: physics, biology, philosophy, history. Indifferent to most fiction, he thinks Thackeray passable, cannot stomach Proust because he "wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos...
HEYDAY IN A VANISHED WORLD-Stephen Bonsai-Norton ($3.50). Another newspaperman's Personal History, antedating the days of Sheean, Farson, Gunther, Duranty. As reporter for the New York Herald under James Gordon Bennett. Bonsai interviewed Parnell, saw Arthur James Balfour, Clemenceau, Briand plain and young...
...United States who need jobs by which to live, has been singled out as peculiarly qualified for sub-editorship on one of Mr. Hearst's newspapers." Mrs. Boettiger is women's editor of the Post-Intelligencer and wife of its young publisher. The question titillating many a newspaperman was whether Publisher Boettiger did not read what he printed or simply had the courage not to care...
Died. David G. Baillie, 71, oldtime newspaperman, onetime literary secretary to Andrew Carnegie, father of United Press President Hugh Baillie; while vacationing, in Aberfeldy, Perth, Scotland...