Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physical condition. He weighed 173 lbs. "bedside," he told reporters. He was tanned and relaxed. Correspondent Tom Reynolds of the New Dealing Chicago Sun-Times reported: "He speaks now with tones of authority . . . confident of his mandate." From his cracker-barrel perch on the arch-Republican New York Sun, Columnist H. I. Phillips wrote reassuringly: "I think Harry's hat still fits . . . and that always in his ear he hears his mom whispering, 'Behave yourself, Harry...
...because they hanker to be loved by all the world (as some probers of the American psyche have suggested), but because the U.S. is engaged in a crucial contest with Soviet Russia for the world's faith and allegiance. Russian-born Newsman Andre Visson (now a U.S. citizen, columnist for the Washington Post and international affairs consultant for Reader's Digest) has tackled the task of exploring Europe's view of the U.S. His findings appeared last week in As Others See Us (Doubleday; $3). Visson reaches the conclusion that a lot is wrong with Europe...
Every Man a King. Last week New York Star Columnist Max Lerner took a wincing look at the good fortune that radio's cornucopia had showered on the family of Edward Easton, an unemployed jewelry salesman of Attleboro, Mass. Mrs. Easton had correctly named a tune on ABC's Stop the Music. Wrote Lerner...
Summing up her impact on London (1923-31), Socialite Columnist Charles Graves says: "She popularized smoking in the days when few nice girls smoked. She killed the stage-door Johnny-he couldn't get through the hundreds of girls outside the stage door . . . She popularized the words 'divine' and 'darling' and bacchanalian parties...
...famed voice that can bounce a whisper off the balcony walls. Husky and vibrant (partly the product of childhood croupiness), it can shift without notice from a sigh in a rain barrel to a hoot in a hollow ("Are you ever taken for a man on the phone?" Columnist Earl Wilson once asked her. "No," she snapped...