Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defender of John Lewis, is general counsel for the A.F.L. and the archetype of the U.S. labor lawyer. As confidant, adviser, defender of Jimmy Petrillo, Dan Tobin and many another A.F.L. chieftain, Joe Padway has written both labor history and labor law, could boast of many a thwacking from Columnist Westbrook Pegler. He was born in Leeds, England, came to the U.S. as a youth, was admitted to the Wisconsin...
Arid if they don't, guessed Columnist Brown, Bevin might just quit...
...been in London as freelancer, literary editor of the English Review and correspondent for the Courier-Journal. When the Courier's owner Robert Bingham was sent to England as Ambassador by F.D.R., he and son Barry enthusiastically plotted Agar's future, made him a C-J columnist in 1935, editor in 1940. In 1942 he resigned to join the Navy (he had been an enlisted man in World...
...difference between Pyle and Dadswell is that Pyle worked for Scripps-Howard, whose 19 dailies frequently left out Pyle's pleasant prewar aimlessness. Columnist Dadswell, who is 51, is his own boss, as four syndicates who tried to sign him have discovered. He beats up his own material singlehanded, types it at 3 a.m. (he sleeps till noon), edits it at the nearest coffee shop ("the restaurants of the country are my workshops"), sells it, mimeographs and distributes it to his newspaper clients. He goes where he pleases, mostly in his own car, writes whatever his common-denominator instinct...
...periods. To tell a veteran of the Tinker to Evers to Chance school that it is unnecessary to express himself when there is nothing to say--unless he possesses the imagination and ability of the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith, who is probably the best working sports columnist of the day--may sound like heresy, but it's undoubtedly better than myopic gaves into an athletic crystal ball...