Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that on the way back from Albany, Elector Samuel Lepler said to Elector David Rockefeller (grandson of John D.): "Now I can say that you and I went to the same college together." Replied Rockefeller: "Oh, did you go to Harvard...
Super-Animal. The miracle of Dogpatch had become a greater national phenomenon than Lena the Hyena; culturally it had surpassed even Sadie Hawkins day. To New York Herald Tribune Radio Columnist John Crosby, who thought he detected a likeness between the whiskered shmoo and a certain Chicago newspaper publisher, the book was "one of the finest satiric creations since Gulliver's Travels." (No, said Capp modestly, that was overrating Dean Swift.) To Dr. Frederic Wertham, a Manhattan psychiatrist who crusades against comic books, the shmoo offered "a solution of human problems on the same spurious level as Nietzsche...
Divorced. Raymond ("Ray") Moley, 62, onetime New Deal Brain-Truster and short-time Assistant Secretary of State (1933), now a contributing editor and columnist for Newsweek; by Eva Dall Moley, 59; after 32 years of marriage, two children; in Cleveland...
...were 100 years ago when Dorothea Lynde Dix began her 40-year crusade to better their lot. But their lot is still a wretched one, and the recovery rate in U.S. mental hospitals is not "appreciably higher" than it was 50 years ago. Albert Deutsch, medicine and social welfare columnist of the New York Star, has made an angry survey of state mental hospitals, The Shame of the States (Harcourt, Brace; $3). Deutsch gives most such hospitals big black marks: for neglect, overcrowding, inadequate treatment, lack of simple decencies...
...page (TIME, Oct. 18) was turned right side up. The bad printing, which had also helped make the paper hard to read, was improved. Flamboyant Florabel Muir, Hollywood correspondent for the New York Daily News and writer for Variety, joined the staff of the Mirror as a part-time columnist...