Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bing Crosby, on the lookout for some choice Crosby records ever since he lost his collection in the fire that destroyed his home last year, was reported by Columnist Harrison Carroll to have tracked down an out-of-the-way Ohio collector with 22 of them. Purchase price (to the croon tycoon): $3 apiece...
...Dewey? It seemed unlikely, but he went on gaining strength from all the Stop-Deweyites, and perhaps from the many citizens who have always been allergic to Tom Dewey and are now relishing the rising smear-Dewey campaign in the New Deal press. (Columnist Walter Winchell reported that odds on Bricker had dropped from 20-to-1 to 3-to-1.) His campaign, John Bricker said, would go on right up to convention time...
...Columnist Leonard Lyons, whose political sources are almost 99% New Deal, reported: "Into the Democratic National Committee headquarters came a man asking to be registered for work in the campaign. He exhibited a photo of Dewey and his Great Dane, then said: 'I want to vote for the Big Man with the Little...
Universal's Columnist Ruben Salazar Mallen observed: "Mexicans are guilty of letting Stokowski run over them. They have an inferiority complex. . . . Mexico and Stokowski are guilty." Famed Composer Carlos Chavez submitted that "it is sufficient to recall that the Mexican Symphony Orchestra has been functioning regularly -without disputes - for the last 16 years." Stokowski wrote an open letter of explanation to Mexico's President Avila Camacho...
...Committee nor the New York Drama Critics' Circle could find any U.S. play of the season worthy of a prize; but business was brisk enough to create acute theater shortages for weeks on end.* For a time theatrical junk collecting was so much the rage that, according to Columnist Walter Winchell, a wag hoped his new show would be able "to overcome the good notices...