Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the New York Post ran a 24-part series heavily attacking him as inaccurate, unreliable and vindictive, Columnist Walter Winchell replied in a counterattack that went on for months. In the 200-odd dailies that carry his column, and over his Sunday-night radio-TV broadcast, Winchell called the Post everything from a "pinko-stinko sheet" and the "New York Ivan" to the "New York Posterior," the "New York Pravda" and the "Compost." He also suggested that the Post's staff was riddled with subversives. For Post Editor James A. Wechsler he had a separate set of Winchellisms...
...enough protection. For example, the $1,000,000 in insurance policies that ABC has taken out does not cover Winchell for punitive damages, i.e., where the court orders damages paid to "punish for maliciousness," as in the $175,000 paid to Author Quentin Reynolds in his suit against Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler (TIME, July 5). Winchell asked that his protection be changed to make it "foolproof." When ABC balked, he asked to end his four-year-old lifetime contract, and the ABC board agreed. By June, said Winchell, he expects to change to another network (probably...
...Columnist DAVID LAWRENCE
...COLUMNIST DOROTHY THOMPSON...
...under Editor Norman Bradley, 42, former associate editor of the Chattanooga Times. Politically, the new daily, says Editor Bradley, is "Democratic by persuasion, independent by nature, middle-of-the-road but slightly more on the liberal side than most Mississippi papers." Its syndicated features include everyone from Right-Wing Columnist David Lawrence to Walter Lippmann, the Alsop brothers, Fair-Dealer Doris Fleeson and the Washington Post and Times Herald's Fair-Dealing Cartoonist Herblock. Since most of Jackson's leading businessmen own stock, the State Times had no trouble filling its first issue with ads. But the opposition...