Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spot in the World-Telegram's column of columns was last regularly occupied by Westbrook Pegler, now gone to Hearst.* But the boots that Tom Stokes is really setting out to fill are those of his great & good friend, the late Raymond Clapper...
Tall, amiable, crinkle-eyed Tom Stokes, 46, one of the nation's shrewdest, most diligent and forthright political reporters, started work under Clapper at United News ("sort of the night side of the U.P.") in Washington in 1923. He says, "I really learned whatever I know about politics and what makes it tick from...
...Others: Sumner Welles's The Time for Decision; Ambassador Crew's Ten Years in Japan; Raymond Clapper's Watching the World; Eric Johnston's America Unlimited; John Carlson's Under Cover; E. B. White's One Man's Meat; Senator James Mead's Tell the Folks Back Home...
...barracks on a lonely, windswept, foggy island, we were listening to the acceptance speech of Mr. Thomas E. Dewey. Following this we heard a summary by a Mrs. Olive Clapper, whose very ladylike comment that Mrs. Dewey had once been in George White's Scandals gained for Mr. Dewey several votes...
...Sigma Delta Chi's Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for distinguished war correspondence...