Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hellbox, as the publishers helpfully note on the jacket, is the place where printers throw broken type. These 26 stories by John O'Hara (an Old Newspaperman himself) have the neat and durable ring of O'Hara's best writing. They also have O'Hara's special effect of making the reader feel he has bitten something brassy. To O'Hara's hopeful admirers the stories may look like 26 more notes for the novel they think he ought to write-and, from that point of view, wasted sticks of type...
Chicago-born Defendant Chandler had been an officer in the U.S. Navy in World War I, worked as a newspaperman in Baltimore. He had married a wealthy woman. In 1931, ruined by the depression, he left the U.S., talking bitterly of the "unAmerican fog spreading over the land from the swamp of imported Jewish-Bolshevik subversion." With his wife and two small daughters, he had settled in Germany. Soon, Douglas Chandler embraced Naziism...
Earl Wilson began a column: "I want it understood that I am one newspaperman who knows absolutely nothing about Bugsy Siegel's murder." But he couldn't resist the urge a few paragraphs further to be on the inside too: "Word was passed around about three weeks ago that he was going to get himself into a lot of trouble...
...beaten down most of the local staff's prejudices against women editors; in spite of her job* the staff liked her. Said Rewriteman Bill Kennedy, after Aggie Underwood took over the city desk as its boss last week: "Aggie's not a woman. She's a newspaperman. No one would dare send her flowers on this occasion. She'd throw 'em at whoever...
...Herd-Loneliness. At 53, stocky Ben Hecht could look down the rungs of a long, golden ladder. He had left Racine, Wis. in his teens with the idea of becoming a violinist. He became a boy-wonder newspaperman (Chicago Daily News) instead. In 1921 he wrote an involved but honest novel, Erik Dorn, but soon found his real bent in writing plays (like The Front Page, co-authored with Charles MacArthur) and dashing off lush Hollywood scripts for $5,000 a week. "I was always able to make large sums of money without giving money any thought," Hecht says...