Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London's tabloid Daily Mirror immediately nominated the Dean for "the most unending ass, half in Christendom and half in Communism." The London Daily Sketch's editorial columnist, Candidus, angrily scored his "antics and political clowning," suggested a boycott of the cathedral whenever he preached. From the pulpit of London's St. Luke's Church, the Rev. Hector Morgan issued another blast: "Send Dr. Johnson on a permanent mercy mission to the prisoners in the salt mines of Siberia...
...COLUMNIST WALTER LIPPMANN: WITHIN recent weeks it has beW come clear that all [the] principal [world] powers are in basic agreement on three general propositions. The first is that war, which now means thermonuclear war, is impossible. The second is that while the great powers must not wage war, they cannot now make the concessions. The third proposition is that, unable to fight and unable to settle, they must nevertheless find ways to relax the. most severe and dangerous of the tensions. Under the constraints of the military stalemate, all the principal powers are impelled to stay more or less...
...York Herald Tribune's COLUMNIST ROSCOE DRUMMOND: DEAR Mr. President: Don't give us what we want-if you have the merest, lingering, flickering doubt that the Soviets are offering more the shadow than the substance of a safer world...
...Press bureaus to buy its service so that they could read Russian news as it came off the teleprinter in their own offices. But reporters permanently assigned to Russia still found their movements carefully held in check. And most of the newcomers were reporting little that was new. Even Columnist Stewart Alsop, who arrived in Russia last week after "writing personally" to Khrushchev for a visa was forced into an unusually humble admission. Wrote Alsop: "Alas, after fully four days in Russia, this reporter still does not know the truth about this strange country...
...week produced a byproduct they did not expect. In Washington, Illinois Democratic Congressman William Dawson announced that his Government Operations Committee is launching an investigation to find out whether the Administration is withholding "pertinent and timely information from [the press]." A special subcommittee plans to question everyone from Syndicated Columnist Drew Pearson to the Washington Post and Times Herald's Managing Editor J. Russell Wiggins, chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors...