And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

* 1955 – Rob Epstein, American filmmaker and journalist

* 1952 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 1973 – Karenna Gore Schiff, American journalist, lawyer, and author

* 1964 – Hoda Kotb, American journalist

* 1970 – Christopher Cuomo, American journalist

* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )

* 1971 – Adam Housley, American journalist

* 1973 – Molly Henneberg, American journalist

* 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist

* 1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist

* 1954 – James Gleick, American author, journalist, and biographer

* 1900 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist ( d. 1945 )

* 1933 – Jerry Pournelle, American author and journalist

* 1951 – Randy Shilts, American journalist and author ( d. 1994 )

* 1958 – Deborah Norville, American journalist

* 1933 – Ike Pappas, American journalist ( d. 2008 )

* 1946 – Margot Adler, American journalist

* 1978 – John Buffalo Mailer, American author, playwright, actor, producer, and journalist

* Adrian Holovaty ( born 1981 ), American web developer, journalist and entrepreneur

* 1944 – Linda Ellerbee, American journalist

* 1915 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter ( d. 2000 )

* 1951 – Harry Smith, American journalist

* 1931 – Hal Fishman, American journalist ( d. 2007 )

* 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic ( d. 2008 )

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.

Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.

The contents were highly embarrassing to American spokesmen, who were on hand to promise Latin Americans a 20 billion dollar foreign aid millennium.

The Providence Sunday Journal article ( Jan. 29 ) asking whether American taxpayers are being victimized by a gigantic giveaway to pay for the care of war veterans who have non-service-connected disabilities sounds as though The Providence Journal is desperate for news.

It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends.

And Sam Rayburn is a great man -- one who will go down in American history as a truly great leader of the Nation.

The day is now appropriately set aside to honor the American men and women who have contributed to the success of our merchant marine fleet in peace and war.

But the Latin American republics who have been rather inclined to drag their feet on taking action against Castro also reacted swiftly last week by finally throwing Cuba off the Inter-American Defense Board.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

The American Pointer Club is still continuing to donate trophies to Juniors who win at Junior Showmanship Classes with Pointers.

Are you looking ahead to the exploding market of millions of American boys and girls, who will grow up to enjoy a traditional American way of life -- ranging the fields with a fine American gun and uniformly excellent ammunition??

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

His problem then became one of restraining the American fighters who wanted to clean out the Vermejo by force immediately.

Fear of the competition -- always a great motivating force in the American economy -- makes retailers who do not have suburban operations exaggerate both the volume and the profitability of their rival's shiny new branches.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.