Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas-born reporter whose close-to-the-skull haircuts have earned him the nickname "Bones," at first drew little sympathy and considerable skepticism from lawmakers or state officials. In eleven years as state adjutant general-under Republican and Democratic governors-respected General Sage, an old newspaperman himself (publisher of the weekly Deming Graphic), had fortified his post by appointing relatives of many potent political figures to his staff. When Addington started digging into the operations of Sage's elite, several of his key informants received anonymous telephone threats. Addington himself was warned to lay off or be knocked...
...follows a philosophical system called "Selectivist," "really an anti-system [containing the best points of] democratic, monarchic, ecclesiastic, Communist and fascist [societies]." Before the fun is over, the story introduces such British supporting players as a callow youth who wants to be "worldlywise like Mr. Somerset Maugham," bounding Newspaperman Wyvell Speen, and a goonlike consular official called Waldo Grimbley, who is delighted when Elaine Brent lands in jail, because he thinks her imprisonment may be used as "a pretext for taking over the bloody country again...
Loser for the League. First and last, "Fighting Jimmy" Cox was a newspaperman. At 28, he was already an influential publisher who took pride in the fact that his Dayton Daily News had racked up more than $1,000,000 in libel suits by its hard-hitting reporting. All the suits were later dropped. After buying the Miami Daily News in 1923, he covered Badman Al Capone's local activities so thoroughly that a gangster syndicate offered Cox $5,000,000 for the paper. The offer was turned down...
...globetrotting, Australian-born newspaperman, "Geof" Blunden has written ten previous TIME cover stories on Communist leaders in the past seven years. During World War II he was a war correspondent in Russia (1942-43), covering the battle of Stalingrad and the capture of Kharkov. He is also the author of two novels about Russia (A Room on the Route, The Time of the Assassins), as well as a recently published satire on the second Geneva Conference (The Looking-Glass Conference). For the product of his carefully acquired knowledge, plus that of a host of other students of the Russian scene...
Footnote. In Dubuque, Iowa, Newspaperman Seymour Kopf, about to publish his book How to Keep Your Job and Be Happy Despite It, wrote an editor: "I analyzed why I, as a newspaperman, had been fired so often. I set down many pointers in the book, and if they are followed, anyone can keep his job forever. At the end of this week, I myself am being fired...