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Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker
Dorothy Rothschild Parker Dorothy Rothschild Parker (1893-1967), American humorist, was known for her biting prose and verse satires. Numerous critics expressed admiration for her unique talent. Born in New Jersey to Scottish-Jewish parents, Dorothy Parker attended Miss Dana's School there... Read more |
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Freelance Editor
Freelance Editor BUSINESS PLAN THE SCRIVENER 752 Kenwood Dr. Silver City, NV 75002 June 1995 to December 1995 The following plan features an approach to home-based freelancing that seeks to combine professionalism and state-of-the art technology ... Read more |
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Herbert Lawrence Block
Herbert Lawrence Block 1909-2001, American editorial cartoonist known as Herblock, b. Chicago. A superb stylist and generally a political liberal, Herblock began drawing cartoons (1929-33) for the Chicago Daily News, later moving to the Newspaper Enterprise Association (1933-43) and to the... Read more |
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Philip Freneau
Philip Freneau , 1752-1832, American poet and journalist, b. New York City, grad. Princeton, 1771. During the American Revolution he served as soldier and privateer. His experiences as a prisoner of war were recorded in his poem The British Prison Ship (1781). The first professional American... Read more |
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Claude G. Bowers
Claude Gernade Bowers The American journalist, historian, and diplomat Claude Gernade Bowers (1878-1958) wrote partisan but influential works on American political leaders. He had a successful career as an editorial columnist and as an ambassador. Claude Bowers was born in Westfield, Ind.,... Read more |
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Peter Haining
Haining, Peter (1940-) British novelist, writer on occult subjects, and anthologist of horror stories. Born April 2, 1940, in Enfield, Middlesex, England, Haining was educated in Buckhurst Hill, England. He worked as a journalist and magazine writer (1957-63) and successively as editor, senior... Read more |
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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American essayist and editor, b. New York City. He was associate editor of the New Republic in its early days (1914-17), but at the outbreak of World War I he left to become Assistant Secretary of War, later helping to prepare data for the peace conference. From 1921 to... Read more |
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Darryl Francis Zanuck
Darryl Francis Zanuck 1902-79, American movie producer, b. Wahoo, Nebr. Beginning his Hollywood career as a scriptwriter, he was hired (1924) by Warner Brothers and made a name for himself penning scripts for Rin Tin Tin dog epics. By 1927 he was an executive producer, initiating the sound era with... Read more |
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Henry Demarest Lloyd
Henry Demarest Lloyd 1847-1903, American reformer, b. New York City. He was on the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune from 1872 to 1885 but resigned to study social problems. His Wealth against Commonwealth (1894) is an attack on monopolies, based especially on an analysis of the Standard... Read more |
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William T Thompson
William T. Thompson 1812-82, American humorist and editor, b. Ravenna, Ohio. He was founder and editor of the Savannah Morning News, which became one of the most prominent newspapers in Georgia. In his editorials he often defended slavery. He is remembered for his use of dialect in short stories... Read more |
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WHAT'S NEXT?
...Citizen Hearst's heirs boasting a masthead in Moscow, with Mikhail Gorbachev a columnist for the...be written off to last year's bitter experience...in ten cut staff last year (among the...significantly, in editorial. Plans ... |
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Boris the brief? (Russian President Boris Yeltsin) (Editorial)
...deliberately humiliated, Mikhail Gorbachev nevertheless left...his climb. In the last phase of his battle against Gorbachev, when Russia stripped...well try (unlike Gorbachev) to cling to power...imagined that the heir to ... |
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Bukharin redux. (exoneration of Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin) (editorial)
...Stalinist nature of Mikhail Gorbachev's proposed...secretary, both last November, concluded...Moscow trial, Gorbachev has linked his...programmatic heir and a foreunner...Bukharin's last great protest...from over. As ... |
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EDITORIAL: Trouble in Turkmenistan.
...Party, a member of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's new generation of Central Asian...however, and Mr. Niyazov succumbed last week, unexpectedly, at the age...President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov as heir apparent to Mr. Niyazou. Mr. Niyazov... |
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West and East. (European Community and Eastern Europe) (Editorial)
...too much for Maggie Thatcher's heirs. In a dangerous precedent, on...repeated time and again by a Mikhail Gorbachev fighting desperately to preserve...over the distribution of wealth. Last but not least, many seem to act... |
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As Country Mourns Assad, Some Lebanese Hope Damascus Will Relax Control ;...
...whether Assad's son and heir, Bashar, will continue...former Soviet leader Mikhail] Gorbachev in the last phase of the Soviet...from southern Lebanon last month after 22 years...published a front-page editorial addressed to ... |
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Astride the World Stage;Thatcher Seized the Historical Moment
...superpower mantle of Mikhail Gorbachev, the economic clout...Parliament or with the editorial writers." Thatcher...Initiative to push Stalin's heirs to the table. "She...so weak, swallow us last.' You say, `Look... |
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AT LAST, WORLD MIGHT GET A LOOK AT RUSSIA'S SHADOWY PUTIN
...had a two-hour audience with Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the death of...been named acting president and heir apparent by Yeltsin, I opined...be serving time for corruption. Gorbachev will be ambassador to the Court... |