Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Columnist Raymond Clapper (whose voice is more the plain man's than the newspaperman's): "Congress has remained a collection of two-cent politicians who could serve well enough in simpler days. But the ignorance and provincialism of Congress renders it incapable of meeting the needs of modern government...
...Queen is dead, long live the Queen!" whooped Hollywood's Daily Variety. While Variety whooped, the movie pressagents trooped to lunch with Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper. New "Queen" Hedda had just signed a contract with the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate-a contract that nearly tripled the number of her readers...
...queen-Hearst Gossip Columnist Louella Parsons-is not exactly dead. But her whims no longer command Hollywood. She still has 17,000,000 newspaper circulation, according to Hearst's I.N.S., through "several hundred outlets." But at one stride Hedda had reached a circulation of 5,750,000 daily (7,500,000 Sunday) through only 27 papers...
...Columnist Pearson, the more politic of the Pearson & Allen team, had long made himself agreeable to Publisher Patterson. He brought her their column-generally believed to be one of her paper's best circulation-pullers-in 1934 for $100 a week. (Cissie liked its pro-New Deal slant then.) To please her he even went so far as to judge Times-Herald beauty contests...
...went after the isolationist press, Cissie began to cool toward Pearson & Allen. This spring she fired Pearson's present wife, Luvie Moore, a member of the Times-Herald staff who had been one of her close friends. She also fired Drew's brother Leon, a Times-Herald columnist. Adding insult to injury, she hired Luvie's former husband George Abell, the one man Drew and Luvie can not abide...