Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...split is Lawyer George L. Arnold, a breezy young (32) newcomer to the area, who voted in another Los Angeles congressional district in 1950. A son of Thurman Arnold (Franklin Roosevelt's trustbusting Assistant U.S. Attorney General from 1938 to '43) and a son-in-law of Columnist Drew Pearson (who has used his nationally syndicated column to discuss Arnold's candidacy), Democrat Arnold has all of his party's organization support. There is another Democrat, named Irving Markheim, in the race, but he is a chronic candidate, has little vote-pulling power...
...rules of TV logic, My Little Margie (Wed. 8:30 p.m., NBC) should have quietly vanished after a brief stint as a summer replacement in June 1952. It was badly written, ineptly acted, and thoroughly panned by the critics (Syndicated Columnist John Crosby described it as "a little stinker"). Margie not only survived, "It flourished, even against such overpowering competition as Arthur Godfrey & His Friends. The latest ARE ratings give Godfrey's Friends a comfortable 52.5, but Margie has 28.1, up nearly three points from last month...
Before the week was out, Brandt got support for his criticisms from two oddly matched allies. New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, whose paper supported Eisenhower, thought some of the "storm and fury" over Ike's press relations was justified. Though his hatred of Franklin D. Roosevelt has never abated, O'Donnell nevertheless wrote that "Ike's relations with the press . . . are not as effective as those of Roosevelt or ... Harry Truman [and] the relations of Ike's Cabinet members with the [press] are bad-very bad." Added Fair Dealing Columnist Marquis Childs...
...told any more than milkwagon horses. They learned all the stops long ago, and they do it just by instinct.-Many a newsman also seems overawed by Ike's national popularity. "I don't think our readers are ready for critical reporting yet," says a top columnist...
...Sing Sing (TIME, Oct. 12). As a result, Dewey asked Wicks to resign. Wicks offered to "let the Senate pass upon my fitness." In its zeal, the J-A was also slightly embarrassed. Among the stockholders of the Yonkers track was the paper's own sports columnist, Lewis Burton, who doubled as the track's publicity man. Burton was promptly dropped by the JA, and Manhattan newspapermen gossiped that other sportswriters were also on track payrolls...