Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listen to radio programs wherever he wandered. For to even the casual ear--provided its owner is someone halfway bright--present-day American radio is an unrealized and lackluster medium. "It is a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere," says radio pioneer Lee DeForrest, and columnist Robert C. Ruark contributes these adjectives: "Corny, strident, boresome, florid, repetitive, offensive, moronic, and nauseating." Occasionally big radio wheels like Mr. Stanton or Mr. Paley rise and plunge the dagger in their bressiz by decrying their own low standards. And groups like the FCC and Listeners' Councils are bee-busy...
Wagner was a reminder of what Flagstad was trying to forget. She had little chance to. Columnist Walter Winchell, among others, whooped at her almost daily. (Sample: "Please do something about this woman, who before and during the war was not on our team. . . . Norway doesn't want her, which is one very good reason for the United States not to take her.") In Seattle, which has the second largest Scandinavian population in the U.S., Impresario Cecilia Schultz said, "I positively refused to ... present her in concert here, because I have a deep-rooted allegiance for the American principles...
Dorothy Thompson, columnist for the Bell Syndicate and the New York Post, will speak on "These Crucial Days" before a New Lecture Hall audience at 8 o'clock on Thursday...
From 1936 until 1941, she served as columnist and political analyst for the New York Herald Tribune...
Should the press, as the commission suggested, "engage in vigorous mutual criticism?" No, answered Columnist Walter Lippmann, admitting to membership in the country-club school of newspapering, in which club members do not discuss each other aloud. Wrote Lippmann: "For there is a fellowship among newspapermen as there is in other crafts and professions. They have to see each other . . . work together. ... I may say that I have tried [such criticism] and have had it tried on me, and my conclusion is that the hard feelings it causes are out of all proportion to the public benefits it causes...