Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clement Richard Attlee is getting ready to retire as leader of the British Labor Party. "I have had a long innings," the pipe-smoking ex-Premier told a London columnist last week. "I shall be glad when I can hand over to a younger man." Attlee had a slight stroke recently, and he is troubled by a persistent eczema. Intimates say that he looks fit enough, but is growing testy and has occasional periods of forgetfulness. As its next leader, the divided Labor Party, which went down to crushing defeat in this year's general election, has just about...
...interview with Soviet Commissars Georgy Malenkov and Lazar Kaganovich. Malone enthusiastically toastedco-existence, and then impetuously offered the Russians a Senate report on strategic minerals in the Western hemisphere a report they already had. Malone's conduct puzzled his friends at home. Wrote New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell: "If Molly has been softened up in Moscow, is it safe to let any of our legislators visit the Soviet Union?" "You're Uncultured!" While Malone and Ellender hogged the limelight, other traveling Americans tried wistfully to get into the act. Justice William O. Douglas...
...Columnist WALTER LIPPMANN...
...with continent twice a week on "the international scene in general." For her first piece, Newshen Swanson sewed a new patch on a frayed theme: the U.S. male is a lousy lover. "Nobody can say I'm too young to know what I'm talking about," wrote Columnist Swanson, whose five marriages (three Americans, one Frenchman, one Irishman) all ended in divorce. The trouble with American men, said she, is that they have been so busy making money that they have lost "that precious something . . . called time-time in which to live the role of lover, husband, father...
Last week Columnist Winchell, no man to do things in a small way, sued ABC for $7,000,000. He claimed the network had misinformed him, that he had been protected all along against punitive damages. Said ABC, revealing that Winchell has asked to be taken back in the fold and been rejected: "There is no basis of fact in Mr. Winchell's complaint...