Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalism graduate," according to an old newspaperman's quip, "is only one degree removed from a good reporter." Today, instead of turning away the diploma bearer, U.S. newspapers are bidding eagerly for journalism school graduates-and finding that there are not nearly enough to go around. From Tulane University's 30-student department to Northwestern's famed Medill School of Journalism (enrollment: 482), journalism deans report that they receive up to ten job offers for every graduate. Said a Journalism Quarterly survey of 76 schools last week: "For the second year in a row, not a single...
...countered he. We didn't know for certain what it was, but we maintained a bold face and returned quicklike, "Too much trouble." He seemed slightly disconcerted, but continued pluckily, "As a newspaperman," (we smirked nervously) "you must be sensitive to the things that other people wear." We began to titter uncontrollably but he went on: "What are the pace-setters wearing...
...Newspaperman John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World, long banned in the Soviet Union,presumably on personal order of Joseph Stalin, was restored to the index of approved reading. Reed's enthusiastic eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution (on his death in Moscow in 1920 the Bolsheviks gave him a hero's burial in the Kremlin wall) omits all mention of the role played by the then obscure Stalin...
Died. Wythe Williams, 74, puckish, pipe-smoking magazine editor and newspaperman, sometime foreign correspondent for the New York World, New York Times. Satevepost (1925-26), chief correspondent (1931-36) for Hearst papers in London, founding president (1939) of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club of America; of cancer; in Jersey City...
...trip and instead preferred to talk of the "urgency" of "what one calls 'normalization' or what I would call 'rapprochement' between the United States and the U.S.S.R." But the ex-editor of Pravda soon showed that he had never been much of a newspaperman himself. "The U.S. press and radio," he said, "is still a Niagara of all sorts of lies and slanders. These irresponsible elements, which poison the atmosphere, should be muzzled...