Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...syndicated columnist in the Washington Times-Herald, eager Tristram Coffin* wanted to start off with a bang. One day last week, the former CBS correspondent came out with the loudest report he could think of: that Harry Truman might go to Moscow. "A relaxed, feet-on-the-chair session with Joseph Stalin is part of the program," wrote Coffin...
Overnight, Columnist Coffin's shot in the dark was heard around the world. Diplomats in Paris talked it up. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano came out strongly for a meeting between Harry and Joe. Moscow papers gave a significantly big play to a Tass dispatch quoting Coffin's prediction...
Read All About It. The press (TIME and LIFE included) had planned postelection issues on the seemingly safe basis that Dewey was in. Hundreds of editorial writers and syndicated columnists, who had turned in their regular Wednesday stints in advance, had struck the same note. Therefore, on election night, from London's Fleet Street to San Francisco's Market Street, newspaper hellboxes overflowed with type that was hastily dumped as the returns came in. (One groundless gossip-columnist report: that LIFE had to junk an issue with Dewey on the cover.) Not all caught themselves in time...
...over, all but a few red-eyed newsmen were red-faced too. The New York Star's Jennings Perry could point with pride to an almost-right October column titled "It's Closer Than You Think." In the small Garden City (Kans.) Telegram (circ. 5,238), Columnist (and publisher) Gervais F. Reed had piped that Dewey would be upset. And on Oct. 25 the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier (circ. 4,720) had said that, thanks to a divine power, the President would be "sustained in office." (The publisher's wife is a Democratic national committeewoman...
Married. Randolph Frederick William Spencer Churchill, 37, columnist and lecturer, only son of Winston; and June Osborne, 26, British socialite; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...