Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monro's alert news sense comes naturally. If he were not the University's able and alert Counsellor for Veterans, he would probably be a newspaperman. As undergraduate leader of the most daring journalistic venture in recent Harvard history, end later as a staffer in the News Office, he seemed headed, before the war, for a permanent berth in the Fourth Estate. Four years of administrative responsibility on an aircraft carrier made all the difference and put the erstwhile leg-man behind a desk once...
When Joseph Stalin "replied" to a newspaperman's questionnaire late last month, he plunged the Western world into a whirlpool of violent controversy. Was Stalin's offer to meet President Truman behind the "iron curtain" made in good faith?--or was it only another sly twist in the Soviet propaganda campaign to split the Western defenses? The United States government has heavily inclined to the latter view and has consequently been excoriated or misunderstood by many people who sincerely believe that Stalin meant just exactly what he said...
Considine became a newspaperman by accident. He started out as a Government messenger, typist and clerk in Washington. When the old Washington Herald spelled his name wrong, in an amateur tennis tournament, he went to the paper to complain-and got a job as tennis reporter...
Roscoe Pound, dean emeritus of the Law School, refused to confirm or deny last night a Boston newspaperman's report that the jurist found no evidence of corruption in the legal system of China...
...continue to bear it up. To the French, the victory of "Harry le souriant' (smiling Harry) meant that the U.S. people had moved closer to them in spirit. In Greece, Athenian grey-marketeers renamed the street where they sell U.S. goods "Uncle Harry Street." Said a Tel Aviv newspaperman: "He is a simple human being, a man of the people. We would rather trust our fate to him than to the cool, calculating diplomats...