Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood nightclub, Frank Sinatra slugged a Hearst columnist...
Frankie said he had overheard the columnist-Lee Mortimer of the New York Daily Mirror-refer to him as "that Dago son of a bitch." So he hit him in the jaw, once, and knocked him down. Mortimer said he was "just minding my own business"-leaving the place with an Oriental girl friend-when Frankie snuck up behind him and hit him back of the left ear. Then, said Mortimer, "at least two men" held him and he was slugged some more...
...best way to strike a blow at race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups, his 4-F draft status, his crooning activities during the war, his meeting with ex-super-pimp Charles "Lucky" Luciano in Havana-little-noted Columnist Mortimer suddenly attained the stature of a Dreyfus, and a fortune's worth of publicity...
Dorothy Thompson, columnist for the Bell Syndicate, will address a New Lecture Hall audience on the topic, "These Crucial Days," tonight at 8 o'clock. Ruppert Emerson '22, associate professor of Government, is scheduled to preface Miss Thompson's remarks...
Sponsored by three University organizations, the Harvard Forum, the Radcliffe Zionist Organization, and the University Zionist Society, Miss Thompson's talk will deal with her stand on many of today's leading issues. According to Mendy Weisgal '45 1G, member of the Zionist executive committee, the columnist plans to clarify the points which led to her recent controversy with the New York Post...