Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrested, he fled to the Brazilian embassy. Though Salazar contemptuously let it be known that Delgado was in no danger, Delgado would not leave without a written safe-conduct pass. Last week's complicated ritual at the airport resulted from a compromise worked out by a Brazilian newspaperman so that neither Delgado nor Salazar need give way on prideful procedure points. With Delgado gone, Salazar, the gentle-seeming but tough ex-professor of economics who rules Portugal, could look forward to his 70th birthday this week with a feeling that after 31 years in power, Portugal, like...
Author Lansing, a onetime United Press rewriteman and Collier's staff writer, draws heavily on scholarly studies of the expedition, has also carefully rechecked the sources. And he has a good newspaperman's respect for telling in unexcited prose the breathless story of men in peril. Dominating all is Shackleton, the incredible leader, the fool-hero who never surrendered. Shackleton was dead within six years, felled by a heart attack at 48, as he mounted yet another assault on Antarctica. It may have been just as well. His finest hour as an explorer was when he brought...
...dispute your statement of March 23 that Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor and newly elected president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is ". . . the first newspaperman in the Chamber's long line of 32 presidents...
...Quite a newspaperman, and quite a president in the Chamber's long line...
Outside the Washington offices of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a square-faced, silver-haired newspaperman kept vigil last week while the chamber's board voted on a new president. When the vote was in, the newspaperman got a good story for his paper-and a surprise: he had been elected president. His name: Erwin Dain Canham, 55, deft-penciled, wide-ranging editor of the Christian Science Monitor and the first newspaperman in the chamber's long line of 32 presidents. Said Editor Canham: "I am intensely surprised but deeply grateful...