Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II, as many a newsman proudly boasts, the best reported war in history? No, said crabby, square-rigged Henry Louis Mencken with characteristic sourness. In the opinion of Baltimore's aging (65) iconoclast, an old-newspaperman himself. World War II was covered wordily but not well...
Shelley Mydans' father, Everett Wallace Smith, was a newspaperman who became professor of journalism at Stanford University. Her mother wrote, too. According to Shelley, she invariably went to sleep to the sound of typewriters. She left Stanford in her senior year to go to Broadway to become a dancer and an actress. She became, instead a LIFE researcher and, in 1938, married her favorite photographer...
...novices among them, Frank Harper's Skiing for the Millions (Longmans Green; $3) is valuable equipment. The German-born son of an American newspaperman, Author Harper (White Maneuvers, Military Ski Manual) learned his skiing in Switzerland, where 20% of the people own skis. His latest book flavors ski instruction with a garrulous skimeister's anecdotes, opinions, sudden poetic bursts. With infectious enthusiasm he inveighs against lazy American ski habits (downhill runs only, uphill rides in chair lifts, hot buttered rum in large quantity). Two Harperisms...
There is a married book-jobber who is useful for visions of glamorous sinning but not much else. There is her arty boob of a brother-in-law, whom she thinks she loves. There is a gay bully of a newspaperman, whom she thinks she hates. But after dinner, theater and a midnight drive with the Press, hate turns to love...
...longest roles on record, crammed with quick-changes of costume and quicker ones of character, Actress Field (in private life, Mrs. Elmer Rice) shows astonishing verve and versatility. Only a step or two behind her in skill is Wendell Corey as the newspaperman. Not the least entertaining part of Dream Girl is its ingenious stagecraft: three sliding platforms on which Stage Designer Jo Mielziner has mounted all sorts of stylish and witty little sets, using normal lighting for Georgina's real life, a blue spot for her trances...