Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last season. But Lardner's friends wondered how he would find time to cover his new beat. Although he considers himself a free-lance writer, at least four employers consider that they hold a proprietary interest in him. He is a staff contributor (of a sport column) to Newsweek, a staff writer on the New Yorker, a contributor on the new National Guardian (see above), and a veteran, but infrequent, sport columnist for North American Newspaper Alliance. (Newsweek felt a little queasy about his new left-liberal connections, but apparently hoped that its readers would not notice...
...humor. After a year at Harvard, he went to work on the Paris Herald, then spent three years on its parent paper in Manhattan, under City Editor Stanley Walker. He married the boss's secretary, Hazel Cannan, and became a sportwriter, and later war correspondent, for N.A.N.A. and Newsweek...
...TIME, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Pathfinder...
Hiss stood confronting Chambers, his face angry and set. He asked Chambers to talk. Chambers began: "My name is Whittaker Chambers . . ." While Chambers went on, finally reading from an old copy of Newsweek, Hiss walked slowly over to him, examined him from every side, asked him to open his mouth wider. Hiss looked hard at Chambers' teeth. He asked: "Are you George Crosley?" Chambers quietly replied: "Not to my knowledge." He remarked that Chambers' voice seemed less resonant than Crosley's, that his teeth were less stained. But when Chambers explained that he had been fitted...
Wallace started by getting the wrong foot in his mouth. He read a letter by George Polk, the CBS correspondent whose murder in Greece (TIME, May 24, July 5) is still unsolved. Next he attacked Newsweek (Folk's former employer), CBS and the press in general for not doing enough to clear up the crime. Perhaps he was trying to ingratiate himself with the newsmen by showing concern for their rights; more probably he was chiding them. In any case, he made the correspondents angry. Wrote Britain's discerning Rebecca West: ". . . Never have I seen ... such a miracle...