Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fresh thinking about the future. Pakistan's President Ayub Khan publicly urged that they should "learn to live like good neighbors" without "frightening or fearing each other." In the light of Tibetan events, he said, Pakistan and India must join together for the defense of the subcontinent. A columnist in the respected Times of India called for a summit meeting between Ayub and Nehru to arrange an Indo-Pakistan alliance that "would constitute a powerful factor making for stability in Asia...
...years a dog columnist and a roving judge of dog shows, Riddle has been bitten only once, at a show years ago in Tennessee. The offending entry, a basset hound, paid dearly for its bootleg nip: it was disqualified on the spot. Riddle is devoted to man's best friend ("I'm just a sucker for dogs"), but he considers biting (especially Riddle) the unpardonable sin. To a lady asking how to cure her dog of chewing on the baby, Riddle replied tersely: "With a .45 pistol...
...average day Columnist Riddle will field 40 such calls from readers, whose questions are as encyclopedic in scope as Riddle's grasp of the subject. He is rarely stumped. Some samples...
Beginning in February, Daily Mirror Columnist Richard Crossman, a Labor M.P., urged Prime Minister Macmillan to step into the Western vacuum of leadership. Said Grossman: "Poor Mr. Eisenhower is far too old and ailing even to try negotiations with the Kremlin." Asked the Sunday Express: "Will Ike now turn to Macmillan?" Answer: yes. Reason: "Too long has Ike let himself be known as a leader only in title, who in fact, needs someone else to lead him." Said the Daily Telegraph: "President Eisenhower is, alas, no longer robust, and the West can provide no substitute for an active and authoritative...
Sneered the Daily Mirror's Columnist Cassandra: "Of all the wibbly-wobblers at the White House, President Eisenhower is doing his best to break the records for indecision . . . General Eisenhower just doesn't know his own mind-which maybe is just as well...