Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After eight months of V1, military scientists were more impressed than ever with robomb potentialities. "The importance of the V-weapons," wrote Hanson W. Baldwin, military columnist of the New York Times, summing up battlefront reports, "increases...
Folks at home began to feel embarrassed. Almost since the war started, they had innocently used the term "G.I. Joe." Then from Santa Barbara, Calif., came a report that soldiers resented it, thought it patronizing. Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon gave his old-soldier version of the name: "For over 40 years a Joe has meant a Jasper, a Joskin, a yokel, a hey-rube, a hick, a clodhopper, a sucker." Runyon remembered that in the last war G.I. (i.e., "government issue") meant "the big galvanized iron garbage and ash can in the back of each company barracks...
Edgar Ansel Mowrer, political columnist and author (Germany Puts the Clock Back), is a left of center liberal who is no Russophobe. But he has been watching recent events in Europe with a deepening distaste. Last week, in a syndicated column (Press Alliance) headed "Accepting the Challenge," he tartly told the U.S. that the time had come to stand up to Russia at the next Big Three meeting (see U.S. AT WAR). Said Mowrer: "Marshal Joseph Stalin's hasty recognition of the Lublin Moscow-manufactured Polish Committee as the Provisional Government of Poland is a challenge flung...
Most Manhattan papers brushed off last week's awarding of the American Horse Shows Association's annual medal to Lois Lisanti as horsewoman of the year. But caustic Dan Parker, Daily Mirror sport columnist, whose pet targets are boxers, wrestlers and race-trackers, found it worth 1,200 words. Wrote Columnist Parker...
...column ("As Roosevelt Sees It") was short-lived, ran just eight days in the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph in April and May, 1925. Franklin Roosevelt, then at Warm Springs, wrote the pieces to fill in for his friend Thomas W. Loyless, the Telegraph's regular columnist. More often than not, his style was playfully folksy. Sample: "It sure is time to get another Democratic Administration." But in one solid column, Franklin Roosevelt objected vigorously to the way the 1925 Navy maneuvers in the Pacific were announced by the Coolidge Administration. Wrote he: "It is hardly tactful ... to give . . . the impression...