Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the letters were addressed to Bill Cunningham, columnist on the Boston Herald. Along with other local contributors, Cunningham broadcast to Scotland over short wave station WRUL in early December announcing the plan...
...otherwise," snarled Sinclair Lewis, "is, to my mind ... a pathetic demonstration of sycophants. ... I wish the British would test our ridiculous national sub servience by offering a few of their hollow titles in the American open market . . . just to see who would leap at the chance to buy one." Columnist Elsa Maxwell reported that Author John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.) had told her he was reading Thucydides' Peloponnesian War "to learn all about modern politics and modern war." Added Elsa: "Maybe I didn't grab my old Thucydides that night...
Like it or not (and Wallace did not seem to mind), his only visible means of support seemed to be the Communists and the organizations the Reds controlled.* Wrote Columnist Frank Kingdon, who resigned as co-chairman of the Progressive Citizens of America after P.C.A. had engineered the Wallace candidacy: "The record is clear. The call to Wallace came from the Communist Party...
...Ginny" came out. All season, tall, bangsy Virginia Leigh, 17, had kept Manhattan society reporters in a dither. Not since Brenda Frazier had a sub-deb been so well managed; Ginny had even been wormed into the New York Sun as a society columnist: "The William Benjamins 2nd (Odette de Brunière) hope for a telephone during the New Year." And last week her debut had the hairy Daily News mewing about "a pale blue moon" and "pink mist." For her coming-out party, there was a blaze of pink candles, a bed of pink azaleas, baby spots playing...
Across the river, Colonel Dave Egan, hard-hitting Boston sports columnist claimed that "Harlow resigned only partially because of ill health--he resigned in greater part because he disagreed completely with the athletic policis of Bill Bingham...