Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawing disgruntled Southern Democrats into his well-organized G.O.P. camp, he was able to harry the Roosevelt Administration and kill many a New Deal bill. Wrote the late Columnist Raymond Clapper: "Martin has received the reluctant but spectacular tribute of being the first Republican since the middle of the Hoover Administration to put the fear of God into the Democratic leadership...
Prentice-Hall got out first with something called Sex Habits of American Men ($3). It is a serious symposium edited by PM Columnist Albert Deutsch; most of the 13 contributors are friendly to Kinsey. But Yale Psychiatrist Robert P. Knight offers a sharp dissent to Kinsey's assumption that prevalence and normality are the same thing. The common cold, says Dr. Knight, has about the same incidence as homosexuality in Kinsey's findings (that 37% of all U.S. males have some homosexual experience). But the prevalence of colds, says Dr. Knight, does not make them "normal...
...Trembling (adapted by Louis Paul from his novel Breakdown; produced by Paul Czinner and C. P. Jaeger) is a very exhaustive, and very exhausting, study of a dipsomaniac. It reveals Ellen Croy, a Manhattan newspaper columnist (Elisabeth Bergner), as a driven soul, harrowed by something in her life which she can neither exorcise nor explain. The play follows her step by step, relationship by relationship-boss (Anthony Ross), husband (Millard Mitchell), old friend (John Carradine)-down into the pit. Then it slowly drags her back into the light...
...slow up the voting wherever they could), and minded babies while mothers cast their ballots. Some Communist members of the election boards tried, despite hawk-eyed poll watchers of the major parties, to invalidate ballots-the slightest blemish on a ballot was enough for the purpose. (One Italian columnist implored his female readers to remove their lipstick before wetting the flap of the ballot "just as if you were giving a little kiss to a man with a suspicious wife...
...barely been shown their rooms before they were clamoring to be changed to different quarters. Society Reporter Igor Cassini (Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker) and his new wife (Elizabeth Darrach Waters) walked into their suite and found it occupied by Cassini's ex-wife ("Bootsie" McDonnell-also a columnist), who had been ushered in by mistake. (They compromised on adjoining suites.) Kaiser-Frazer's Joe Frazer and Otis & Co.'s Cyrus Eaton, currently feuding over K-F's stock troubles, spent the time busily dodging each other...