Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...league baseball last week got ready to open its 1943 season in the mood of tempered optimism of a batter running out a three-bagger with two out and a cross eyed player next at bat. Columnist Damon Runyon quoted odds of 9-to-5 that the major leagues would not be able to play out their 1943 schedules. Already some 225 of last year's 400 major leaguers had gone into the services. Nobody, not even Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt, knew how soon local draft boards would call the elderly and ailing ballplayers still left...
...McIntosh at dinner last. Thursday evening., Libby Tyson, ace cartoonist of PIPTIDE, the WAVES' newspaper, executed some amusing place-cards for the occasion. After dinner the girls had the opportunity of meeting their guests informally in the living-room. Ruth Finke, Kitty Reumann, Elsie Koeliner, Jane Staiger and your columnist performed some songs written to order by your columnist. Betty Etrachan was the accompanist. One in particular was rendered with deep feeling...
Remarried. Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, 42, veteran Scripps-Howard columnist, now in North Africa and Geraldine Siebolds Pyle, 43, eleven months after their divorce (after 16 years); by proxy; in Albuquerque...
Between testifying on Capitol Hill and looking after her command, Oveta Hobby took time out last week to nail a canard. Columnist Walter Winchell had reported that, as North Africa's "biggest problem," the WAACs might be sent home. Said Colonel Hobby of Winchell's item: "Not only . . . without foundation, but the WAACs there are performing their duties so satisfactorily that General Eisenhower has requested many more...
...many voices already raised against the voice-vexing Star-Spangled Banner, Columnist Westbroolc Pegler added his vexed voice. He found the music generally unsingable, the lyrics "stilted . . . pompous . . . episodic doggerel," the whole business "simply out of the question." Proposed Pegler as a substitute: "the Maine Stein Song (Rudy Vallee's onetime plug) . . . a thumping, rousing, really musical piece done within the range of the normal, or barbershop, voice...