Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldtime newspaperman once said to Stringfellow Barr: "You know the trouble with the present generation? They've never read the minutes of the previous meeting...
When Kitty Fischman had her first baby she wired her old city editor on the Chicago Times: "Can you use a good newspaperman?" He wired back: "I sure can." Kitty has kept the lad working toward the job ever since...
...schnapps with one." "Na, Hans," laughed the others, drinking their brandy out of fancy glasses etched with a swastika, "don't get excited. If you on the West had half the experiences with Russians that we did, there'd be reason for tension. Here is an American newspaperman who wants to know what the few young Germans left are thinking. Well, let's tell...
Died. Charles Butterworth, 46, stage & screen comedian whose hesitant, apologetic manner helped lift Hollywood comedy out of its custard-pie trough; in an automobile accident near Los Angeles, when his British roadster jumped a curb, struck a lamp post, left 180 feet of skid marks. Originally a newspaperman (said his kindest city editor: "Charlie is worth every bit of his $26 a week"), he got his theatrical start with a Rotary Club lecture in J. P. McEvoy's Americana, later became famed for his deadpan burlesque of the eager, mousy little guy he really...
...series of articles for London's Sunday Dispatch, the tall, shy, young Oxford-bred newspaperman who traveled and argued with Britain's Field Marshal from El Alamein to Germany, flatly denied Ingersoll's charge that Monty lost the battle of Caen while the British outnumbered the enemy. He dismissed the Ingersoll version of the battle of the Ardennes, "which represents Montgomery as panicking and screaming ... as putting the British Army into full retreat, as nearly losing the battle by abandoning the offensive . . . and finally as trying to scoop all the credit for himself...