Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday columnist for the liberal-minded Atlanta Constitution wrote, in a blunt editorial which may have made many a white Southerner uncomfortable: "We cannot much longer continue to subject Negroes to 'taxation without representation' or draft them to jeopardize their lives in defense of a democracy which denies them the right of franchise...
...story concerns the tiny English hamlet of Bramley End and its two-day seizure by four planeloads of German paratroopers disguised as four lorry-loads of British engineers. Unmasked by Nora Ashton (Valerie Taylor), sweetheart of Community Leader Oliver Wilsford (Leslie Banks), who is really a fifth columnist, the Germans pen the villagers in the church...
Some of the villagers (including Frank Lawton) escape, hold off the Nazis until the timely arrival of British troops. High spot: Fifth Columnist Banks dying like a dog, in the hammiest death throes since Laocoon...
Ardent defense witnesses included the egocentric gossip columnist of the London Daily Herald, Hannen Swaffer, whose story was that he and a committee of four others had once tested Mrs. Duncan's spectral powers, tied her securely with handcuffs, sashcord and thread, watched her wriggle loose in three minutes. Concluded Swaffer: "There was ectoplasm, but no one appeared. Obviously she had been released by Albert, the spirit guide...
Walda Winchell, 17-year-old blond daughter of Columnist Walter Winchell, signed a renewal contract with 20th Century-Fox, assumed the cinemalias. Toni Eden, commemorating her current crush, Britain's Foreign Secretary...