Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bess Truman! She was not always posing for her picture . . . She had no sons who made the headlines with their shameful escapades. She never wrote a book or a column. Neither did she travel all over the world . . . And I'll bet she doesn't know what a demagogue...
Commentators in your Dec. 8 Letters column on Detroit's Board of Commerce proposal to abolish all U.S. tariffs overlook the most fundamental principle underlying foreign trade. Foreign imports are of no benefit to a country unless they consist of products which that country cannot profitably produce...
...eggheads and your Nov. 24 Letters column: I would be interested in knowing how many indignant letters you received from eggheads who took this new moniker personally. The "unhealthy gap" between these self-styled intellectuals and "we, the people" is of course created by their regrettable lack of humor, and their even more regrettable lack of other forms of perspective. These are the armchair variety of philosopher, politician, diplomat, businessman and economist who can't see past theoretical idealism to the cold, practical facts ... I venture to guess that most of them are under 35 -William Allen White...
...being is an egghead? Do you mean a sort of Martini-sipping Guru of beer-guzzling disciples? Or just anyone in whom intellect surpasseth understanding? . . . Perhaps . . . your readers can give us a clarifying definition of this intriguing word coinage ... So many of TIME'S readers in your Letters column acknowledge being eggheads, we should certainly be able to pin this thing down...
Israel doesn't have the housing or money to resettle them," he declared, "There is a danger that they could become a fifth column if war were resumed. We already have 250,000 Arabs in our country...