Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wrote Columnist Walter Lippmann: "But for Mr. Truman's campaign tour, it would never have been possible to prove to the country how small a part Mr. Truman actually plays in the great office which he holds . . . Mr. Truman may get reports on what is happen...
While the police hesitated, Columnist Drew Pearson, ex-husband of the countess, phoned from Washington to urge them to hang on to Porter's things. The Times-Herald won out. Officers sealed the bags and one of the newsmen took them back to Washington...
...Knew Too Much." The coroner called Porter's death suicide, but next day Columnist Pearson hinted that it might have been murder. The circumstances, he said darkly, "are strange indeed, including the fact that Porter jumped-or was pushed-through a window screen. This is not an ordinary act of suicide." Pearson said Porter had told him that certain people had been trying to force him to return to Scotland (he was a British subject), because "apparently some people believed he knew too much." Porter had told some friends of attempts to blackmail him, and he was sure...
...first took over the Times-Herald column, "These Charming People," when Columnist Igor ("Ghighi") Cassini, her first husband, went off to war. She kept it when Cassini became the Journal-American's "Cholly Knickerbocker" three years ago. (Cholly waited until last week to mention Bootsie's new name. And Bootsie, say friends, is miffed because Ghighi remarried before she did.) When she tried to syndicate the column, her boss, the late Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, said no. But now the lid was off: Washington newsmen expected Bootsie to be syndicated throughout the Hearst chain. And fellow gossip Danton...
...free-lance writer, at least four employers consider that they hold a proprietary interest in him. He is a staff contributor (of a sport column) to Newsweek, a staff writer on the New Yorker, a contributor on the new National Guardian (see above), and a veteran, but infrequent, sport columnist for North American Newspaper Alliance. (Newsweek felt a little queasy about his new left-liberal connections, but apparently hoped that its readers would not notice...