Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date this week at Paris' Quai d'Orsay. With a glass of champagne and a kiss on each cheek from Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, they would be formally made knights of the Légion d'Honneur. For both Geneviève Tabouis, famed political columnist of France-Libre (circ. 115,000) and Janet Flanner, famed "Genêt" of the New Yorker, the kudos was overdue...
Here's what one leading New York football columnist saw last week: "Harvard should stage a strong comeback ... the Johnnies figure to blast Yale and perhaps upset Princeton... Jim Kenary, a needle-point passer, will be cast for the role of Chappuis in Art Valpey's version of the Michigan offense. .. Hal Moffie, Harvard's seatback, can ontrun anybody on the Yale squad... Chip Gannon is due for a big year at Cambridge. .. Bob DlBiasio is the lad Yard birds tout as a 'second Mahan'... Tom Guthrie will be eligible next fall...
...began his press conference by calling Columnist Drew Pearson a liar. The reason: Pearson's charge that the President, in private conversation with an unidentified Manhattan newspaper publisher, had called New York Jews disloyal. Speaking slowly and without heat, Harry Truman told newsmen: "I want to pay attention to a vicious statement . . . it is just a lie out of whole cloth...
Would the weather be warm or icy after the Italian elections April 18 (see FOREIGN NEWS)? The New York Times's roving columnist-correspondent made no predictions. But, she wrote urgently, "everyone in the arena knows that the battle is as much against America as against Italy and can be lost unless the danger [of a Communist coup] is understood in Washington as well as in Rome...
...promotion of racial and religious amity, Columnist Billy Rose got B'nai B'rith's award for outstanding journalism...