Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three committees of U.S. newsmen are trying to solve the murder. None is fully convinced, as the U.S. State Department seems to be, that Greek Communists killed Polk. One committee, headed by Columnist Walter Lippmann and Washington Post Publisher Eugene Meyer, hopes to raise $50,000 to keep the investigation going...
With the uncanny prescience of the born reporter, Lolly was there when it happened-well, almost. From Rome last week, junketing Hollywood Columnist Louella O. Parsons cabled a gushing lead to the Hearstpapers: "Wouldn't you know that I'd be within two blocks of the scene at the very time Angelo* Pallante attempted to kill Palmiro Togliatti, the most dangerous Communist in Italy!" Louella's story: she and Actress Merle Oberon were on a shopping expedition when the attempted assassination took place. The tragic result: "Neither of us was able to finish the buying of gifts...
...marriage of the New Republic and Editor Henry Wallace had been shaky from the start. It became a trial separation when Henry decided to run for President; Henry would no longer be editor, just a contributing editor (TIME, Jan. 5). This didn't work, either. Columnist Wallace and the New Republic disagreed about the Marshall Plan, foreign and domestic Communists-and the candidacy of Henry Wallace...
Shirtsleeves & Galluses. The jumbled roaring which came through the loudspeakers boomed so loudly and with such a passionate rise & fall of voice that it was applauded as if it were an announcement of the final collapse of the Soviet Union. Of the men & women who made purely partisan speeches, Columnist Lippmann wrote: "Never did they admit that they had ever been wrong, less than wise, less than the only true defenders of the faith, or that one trace of humility or magnanimity could be allowed to mitigate their absolute self-righteousness...
...brass as bureau chief for his nine-man news staff. Blimp-shaped Publisher Roy Roberts took intelligence reports from his Kansas City Star staff then retired to Suite 1206 at the Bellevue-Stratford to dictate his own stories. On the fringes were a few on-the-fringe journalists. Columnist Earl Wilson, Debutante Virginia Leigh and Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas (reporting for the Denver Post...