Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breakthrough's Edge. In the wake of the President's statement, some critics, e.g., New York Herald Tribune Columnist Stewart Alsop, assumed that the "hard line" staffers who doubt the value of Russian promises on disarmament had won some sort of "battle for the President's mind." The Alsop story was that Strauss brought Scientists Teller, Lawrence and Mills to see the President to clinch the arguments for keeping the tests. Actually the scientists came to see Ike in his capacity of chief of state. And they came under the auspices not only...
Ducking the Responsibility. The President's proposals, wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Roscoe Drummond, far from being acclaimed "with enthusiasm and a determination to pick them up and show that the states really want to reverse the tide of political power which flows to Washington, seemed to be about as popular as a stowaway at the captain's ball." Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor George Leader (who is prohibited by law from running for re-election): "I don't think the states are doing a very good job with the things they...
...Morris pilot hopped out in a huff, "thinking 'Some stupid clod's hit me,' " melted immediately when Philip cheerfully took the blame. Damage to Queen, Prince and commoner: none. To Philip's prestige as president of the auto association: sufficient dents that a London columnist suggested it would be just as well if he stopped chauffeuring the Queen...
...when New York Herald Tribune Critic John Crosby wrote of his TV longevity: "There is a great lesson in this for all of us. But I'm damned if I know what it is." Said New York's quicktempered Daily News, which employs Sullivan as a Broadway columnist: "The celebration was cattily clawed over and damned with faint praise by an alleged television and radio critic calling himself Crosby or Crosley or something...
Arthur Brisbane, journalism's Basic English eminence, then on the New York World, put Harriet to work as a columnist. It was a good pick. She had written brilliant copy for her own cream, and she did even better campaigning against the wasp waist and for shorter skirts, and announcing that yes, it was very wrong to eat peas off a knife. Perhaps gallant General Grubb might have conceded that, regardless of who won the Civil War, American women won the peace. Harriet Hubbard Ayer fought to the last man and had the final victory of picking up poor...