Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council on World Affairs: "The dangers in the world situation are so painful that people tend to run away from them." Others believe that the U.S. has become too used to leaving things to Ike. "He's the American people's papa," says Miami News Columnist William C. Baggs, "and everybody feels free to leave everything in his hands." But the fact seems to be that the U.S.. perhaps following Ike's example, has learned to live with crisis-and to weight the crises as they come. Americans generally understood the gravity of both Hungary...
...last December, according to the court-martial charges, Colonel Nickerson wrote his memorandum against the Wilson order, sent it to William F. Hunt of Reynolds Metals Co. and John A. Baumann of Radio Corp. of America (both employed at Redstone), Editor Bergaust of Missiles and Rockets, and to Washington Columnist Drew Pearson. "We took one look at it," said Bergaust later, "and decided we didn't want the stuff around. So we mailed it back to Nickerson, registered. Fortunately, we kept the receipt...
Born. To Francis Murray Patrick Mc-Mahon, 54, oil-rich Calgary wheeler-dealer (TIME, Jan. 14), board chairman of Pacific Petroleums Ltd.. and Betty Betz McMahon, 37, onetime Hearst teenagers' columnist: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Francine. Weight...
...show in the history of TV." He is surrounded by the usual coterie of chorines, con men, stooges and freeloaders. His head writer (Edmond O'Brien) plagiarizes to please him. His weakling brother (Mel Tormé) can neither escape him nor lick him. Even a fox-sly gossip columnist fails to frame him and concedes that he must wait for revenge until "six straight men send him along the route to the great producer up yonder." The unpleasant honesty of the climax makes up for most of the play's faults: after pulling down the worlds of those...
...family shuttled between a sprawling 18th century farmhouse on 150 acres in Cornwall, Conn, and a house on Greenwich Village's Bleecker Street, where an evening's conversation struck sparks from a roomful of such guests as Carl, Mortimer Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Critic Joseph Wood Krutch, Columnist Franklin P. Adams, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst, Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "We'd be talking along," recalls Fadiman, "and then we'd look up and there would be two little kids in pajamas, hanging over the banister, eavesdropping." Charles's mother would pack him and his younger brother John...