Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being out in front also brought embarrassing moments. A growing number of Republicans, joined by several newspaper columnists, were suggesting that the strongest Republican ticket would be Arthur Vandenberg for President and Tom Dewey for Vice President. Columnist Walter Lippmann wrote that Dewey is "entirely competent to be President," but "a man who refused the Vice Presidency under these circumstances would write himself down as too ambitious, as lacking in humility and a sense of duty and, therefore, as not really qualified to be President...
Reported the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond: "[He] is a different, improved and more effective campaigner than . . . Washington correspondents have seen in action before." Wrote Columnist Joseph Alsop: "It is reassuring to be able to report that this harddriving, remarkably competent but sometimes rather inhuman governor is still growing as a man and a leader...
...Duchess of Windsor was beginning to worry a little about the outlook in the housekeeping situation, she confided to Columnist Elsa Maxwell. "I think," said the Duchess, "I'll eventually take two rooms somewhere, do my own washing and cooking...
There was some basis for the crack. Yaleman Whitelaw Reid, the new editor (and son of the owner), had a bevy of competent classmates around him: Radio Columnist John Crosby; Dick Pinkham, new circulation manager; and August Heckscher, a new editorial writer. The new sports editor (also Yale '36) is curly-haired, gregarious Bob Cooke, who once did a sports column for the Yale Daily News, played right wing on the varsity hockey team, was an Army flyer (in B-26s) during the war. His first official act was to assign himself back to the Brooklyn Dodgers; Woodward...
...nearing the deadline for Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News. And dapper Jack Burket, editor recently turned columnist, was blank of ideas. Just in time, he found one, and turned out an essay on the moods of San Francisco at dawn and dusk. Over at the rival Hearst Call-Bulletin, the column seemed to stir memories. Leafing through files, the Hearstlings found an April 23 piece by A.P. Columnist Hal Boyle-on the moods of Manhattan at dawn and dusk. They reprinted the columns side by side, under the heading HO HUM. Sample quotes...