Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paratroop war against the Dutch over the disputed territory. If Sukarno accepts the agreement, it means that he will have to back down from his longstanding boast that he would throw the Dutch out of western New Guinea by next Jan. I. Said an Indonesian diplomat to a Dutch newspaperman: "The big Bung [brother] will have to decide. If the Bung says 'Yes,' you are my good old Dutch friend; if the Bung says 'No,' you are my good old Dutch enemy...
Died. Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, 60, onetime St. Louis newspaperman who joined Hollywood's stable of screenwriters in 1928, but left in 1955 to put TV's horse opera The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp high on the Trendex trail; by his own hand (pistol); in Oxnard, Calif...
...says. "I do a lot of rewriting." His letters (100 a week) have supplied him with a view of journalism's perennial surprise: "Some tell me I'm wonderful, and some tell me I'm crazy. I never realized how tough it is to be a newspaperman...
Married. Jane Froman, 44, throaty songstress (With a Song in My Heart) who made a gallant comeback from near-death in a 1943 plane crash; and Rowland Smith 55, newspaperman in Columbia. Mo.; she for the third time, he for the second; in Columbia...
...Khrushchev had agreed to disarm; a Washington stockholder had a hot tip that the U.S. was about to invade Laos; others understood that Russia had dumped American securities in Switzerland to ruin the U.S. market. Just as inevitably, there was talk about some gigantic plot. In Los Angeles, retired Newspaperman John Gray, 87, who held on to his falling Southern California Edison stock, said: "The whole thing was started by people who wanted to discredit the President. They sold off huge chunks of stock, prices went way down, as was planned, but then things got out of control." California...