Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefully indirect questions about a robbery ("I hear some pals stopped in to see you last night") to a modern poet who must find "some oblique and more beautiful way of indicating what he [means] ... He was a good detective, almost as allusive as T. S. Eliot." Ex-Newspaperman Grafton has managed to light up a few odd corners of the human heart with a Speed Graphic...
Then Editor Gore ran into trouble. A year ago, objecting to Senator Joe McCarthy's attacks on President Eisenhower, he called on his fellow Wisconsinites "to shake off the soiled and suffocating cloak of McCarthyism." Then Editor Gore stepped out of his role as newspaperman. As his idea caught on, he used his job plant to print petitions for McCarthy's recall, and he organized the Joe Must Go Club to handle the flood of incoming mail and petitions. He also made speeches around the state, found himself a rallying point for anti-McCarthyites...
...have to control certain liberties. Results, based on hard facts, prove we are on the right path." For example: "No newspaperman is told what to write, but he is forbidden to write anything that, in our opinion, may be bad for the morale or progress of the country. In a word, the press is censored. Very mildly indeed, but censored." In Pérez Jiménez' view, "there must be a leader who shows the way without being perturbed by the necessity of winning demagogic popularity." He makes it plain that for the present he has no intention...
...Drink. Unable to trust the local police, French authorities called in help from Paris. Ten inspectors, said to be on vacation, arrived in Casablanca and by luck turned up one local cop who was willing to talk. Albert Forestier was a tough, 25-year-old ex-racing cyclist and newspaperman who had joined the police force only a few months before. He was soon an avid vigilante as well, but when his friends bombed the home of his old editor, he turned sour. Albert's story to the French detectives was complete with names and dates. Before he could...
...York has everything. For all the shortcomings, the best New York newspapers are the best in the country. The city is brimful of news. It should be the paradise of the newspaperman...