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Something significant will be missing this month from the press of the nation: Columnist Raymond Clapper has headed for Rehoboth Beach, Del., for his first vacation in two years. In those two years Clapper has more than doubled his readers (to 8,598,635, in 144 papers), has doubly cinched his unique place among U.S. columnists...
Five years ago Washington correspondents voted that Clapper (who had then barely started syndication for Scripps-Howard) was the "most significant, fair and reliable" columnist. Today a majority of his fellows would still probably give Clapper the same award. The quality which wins him such tribute from his colleagues is his plainness, as man and writer, in articulating a plain man's concept of democratic government...
Lone Wolf. Many political columnists prefer to run with the partisan pack, but Clapper declares: "In this business you've got to be a kind of lone wolf." He has refused to endorse any group, and he belongs to no political party. A pre-Hearst discoverer and longtime friend of Alf Landon, Clapper did not mince his criticism when Landon swung to the Old Guard in the 1936 campaign. He is still Landon's friend...
...morning Columnist Clapper read the announcement of Mayris Chaney's appointment to OCD, the Clapper breakfast-table peace was shattered by an oath that shook his family out of their seats. That day his column crystallized the general feeling that Mrs. Roosevelt should retire from politics. Nevertheless, Mrs. Roosevelt kept him on her visiting list...
...take that damned column of Clapper's. What does he expect Congress to do-go out and run the war? And if we start that, what will happen? Why, the newspapers will be the first ones to jump on us and say that we are bitching up the war effort, that we are mixing in stuff that we have no business to, that we ought to shut up and let the Army and Navy...