Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columnist Drew Pearson reported that "The Hat" was once again in line for the job of Allied High Commissioner in Rome. Cracked LaGuardia: "I understand Pearson is to be named a Lithuanian count." Later he snapped at newsmen: "Don't ask silly questions." And even after President Roosevelt hinted that there might soon be a new assignment for him, the little mayor kept mum. He sent Manhattan newsmen a curt note: "I have an assignment with my dentist." Leaving City Hall that night, he rudely barked: "I'm going to clean up the streets tonight...
Franklin Pierce Adams, diarist-columnist (F.P.A.) turned nostalgia expert (of Information Please), was nominated as Democratic candidate for Connecticut's Senate, from a rock-ribbed Republican district. His campaign strategy: mostly "to keep my trap shut...
John O'Donnell, Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, who hates the New Deal and loves to gloat, found something to gloat about last week. Having just read a supplement to the ardently internationalist New Republic taxing Thomas E. Dewey with onetime isolationist leanings and general inconsistency in foreign policy, Columnist O'Donnell had dug out of the files a 1935 statement by the same weekly. After noting current proposals for new U.S. armaments, it said...
Congressman Nat ("Cousin") Patton, black-hatted, bush-browed U.S. Representative from Texas, to whom almost everyone is "Cousin,"* found an exception in Columnist Drew Pearson. Cousin Patton, just defeated in a Texas run-off primary, met Pearson in the House restaurant, promptly pulled out a brown-handled knife, began to pound Pearson on the chest. Shouted Patton: "You beat me, you beat me. . . ." He demanded that the honor of another Patton (no kin) be cleared: ". . . you stabbed General Patton in the back when you wrote that story about him. You apologize to General Patton or I'll cut your...
Bald, icy-eyed Columnist Strunsky is the kind of newspaperman about whom no hit play or best-selling novel is likely to be written. He has never picked a lovenest lock, swiped a picture from a new widow, or solved a murder. Born in Russia and schooled in New York City from P.S. 77 through Columbia, he went to work as an editor of the New International Encyclopedia in 1900, aged 21. After six years he shifted to editorial writing for the New York Post, became its editor in 1920, moved on to the Times...