An edition of String of pearls (2001)

String of pearls

on the news beat in New York and Paris

1st ed.

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An edition of String of pearls (2001)

String of pearls

on the news beat in New York and Paris

1st ed.

"Priscilla Buckley is probably best known for her long and admired tenure as managing editor of the conservative political journal National Review, founded in the 1950s by her brother William F. Buckley, Jr. But in String of Pearls we meet a different Priscilla - young Pitts Buckley, just out of Smith, eager for the next step up from the college paper to "real" journalism.

There she is, in her proper wool suit, her cashmere sweater, and her string of pearls, notebook at the ready, United Press Radio News Department's fledgling employee.".

"The war in Europe was winding to its close. For Buckley, the atmosphere in UP's New York offices was a heady one; the journalists worked furiously but had time to play practical jokes, stage mock battles on the newsroom floor, and treasure the funny stories that haste and tension engender. Young Priscilla fit right in; she made friends, wrote copy for the reporters to read on the air ("Keep the sentences short!"), and joined in the fun and frequent hilarity.

It was a demanding, sometimes heartbreaking, and always vibrant period.".

"The author was pleased a few years later to be offered a job at the Paris Bureau of United Press. The young writer who had spent some of her girlhood years living in prewar France with her parents and her numerous siblings found a different Paris at war's end; scars of the prolonged occupation were everywhere.

It was a poignant time, but for Priscilla and her friends there was laughter and comic misadventures as well, and she shares them, along with varied characters gathered at United Press at the time, with us."--BOOK JACKET.

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Thomas Dunne Books
Language
English
Pages
183

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String of pearls: on the news beat in New York and Paris
2001, Thomas Dunne Books
in English - 1st ed.
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String of Pearls: On the News Beat in New York and Paris
2001, St. Martin's Press
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Published in
New York, N.Y
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
070/.92, B
Library of Congress
PN4874 .B7958 2001, PN4874.B7958 2001, PN4874 .B7557 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
183 p. :
Number of pages
183

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Open Library
OL6788689M
Internet Archive
stringofpearlson00buck
ISBN 10
0312272170
LCCN
00047528
OCLC/WorldCat
45195686
Library Thing
844488
Goodreads
373874

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