Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loud note in the editorial chorus was a warning against apathy. "The Republican mood," wrote Columnist Marquis Childs. "is one of supreme conviction of victory, with overtones of the smugness against which President Eisenhower himself warned." Citing the poor TV ratings of both political conventions, the Providence Bulletin thought that apathy was a problem confronting the Democrats as well. "The election will be no shoo-in for the Republicans," editorialized New York's Daily News, advising against a "refined, polite, high-level campaign . . . Nice-Nellyism seldom wins elections in this country." Slapping Adlai Stevenson for his "prissy little...
Legworlc. Columnist David Lawrence, a staunch Eisenhower man, thought that, despite the forthcoming campaign hullabaloo, "a preponderant number of citizens have already made up their minds how they are going to vote." But the Chicago Tribune's Walter Trohan contended that the last two weeks of the old 1948 campaign saw "certain" Republican victory "transformed to crushing defeat." and noted that the Democrats have "a hard hitting team" this time. The New York Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond thought that Stevenson and Estes Kefauver were off to a fast start, with a big improvement in the Democratic nominee...
...Columnist Joseph Alsop alternated deep thinking with strenuous legwork. went doorbell ringing in Portland and Seattle to talk with the voters. His findings: 1) the big issue with most people is foreign policy, i.e., peace; 2) voters have made a switch from Ike to Stevenson that may put Oregon and Washington into the Democratic column. But Alsop cautioned: "In most cases, the switchers had made their decisions without passion or violent conviction. Their decisions, one felt, might be changed later...
...those who like their experts to offer hard figures, New York Post Financial Columnist Sylvia F. Porter tipped readers to the latest professional gambling odds on the election: 4 to 1 in favor of Ike, narrowed from the 5 to 1 before the Democratic convention...
Despite Dio & Co.'s arrest, there are nagging loose ends: Was the acid bath to silence Riesel, as the Government insisted, or to even a grudge? If the columnist had to be silenced, why wasn't he murdered? And why should Dio, whose name had not appeared in a Riesel column since 1953, be anxious to attack him? Biggest question of all: Did the chain of command really stop at Johnny...