Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rainier's fiancee. Cinemactress Grace Kelly, and to help plan the April wedding strategy. Meanwhile, on a nearby movie set, Grace rested between scenes of her new film High Society, looking startlingly thin in an unflattering classic-cut bathing suit. Was this a new New Look? Roving U.P. Columnist Gloria Swanson thought so and hailed it. From Rome ex-Screen Siren Swanson cabled: "Now with . . . America's Grace Kelly leading the flat-chested brigade, leaving behind . . . all the other sweater girls, I hope it won't be long before Italy's overgrown divas will...
...Drew Pearson's week. First, Columnist Pearson apologized for his recent charge (branded a "scurrilous lie" by Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty) that President Eisenhower had taken a hand in the "giveaway" of Oregon timberland to Al Sarena Mines, Inc. (TIME, Feb. 6). Next, after five expensive years of legal maneuvers, Pearson quietly dropped his $5,100,000 damage and libel suits against Senator Joe McCarthy, Columnists Westbrook Pegler, Fulton Lewis Jr., and six others (TIME, March 12, 1951). At week's end, having thus turned both cheeks, Pearson was slapped with a $250,000 libel suit...
Myth. The biography is Beaverbrook, A Study in Power and Frustration. The author: Tom Driberg, ex-M.P., left-wing Laborite and onetime Beaverbrook columnist. Explained the Express: "The book is hostile and often inaccurate, but the policy of this newspaper is to suppress nothing...
...Energy, of Course." Outside Hollywood, few users advertise the fact that they are among the pill buyers. But in the unbuttoned movie colony, Kendis Rochlen, movie columnist for the Mirror-News, reported: "I went from Ginger Rogers' party to Jose Ferrer's party to a dinner party, and everywhere they were talking about it. My husband is on it now. He used to be very nervous, really just miserable. Now he doesn't get mad as quick or stay mad as long. He has no energy, of course." Says Milton Berle: "It's worked wonders...
...Emotional abhorrence of Nixon," wrote a columnist in the liberal New Republic last week, "seems to be about the strongest bond liberals have these days." Five pages later, the New Republic exposed the impoverished truth of the statement by taking off on its fellow-liberal weeklies, the Nation and the Reporter. Reason: they are "advising liberals to refrain from supporting Adlai Stevenson...