Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats could take some comfort from Columnist Walter Lippman, who had written, after the Republican debacle in 1932: "It is always a mistake to assume that either of the two American parties is dead, however divided and crushed it may seem to be. Herbert Croly (founder of the New Republic) used to say that the two parties were virtually indestructible because they were low-grade organisms, which had neither a brain nor a heart that could be stopped, and so you could cut them in half and the two halves would wiggle on and somehow grow together again...
Recently sensation-loving Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express aired the report that Britain had asked for bombs. Last week, in the U.S., conscientious Columnist Marquis W. Childs aired It further. Childs told how Bernard Baruch, chief U.S. atomic negotiator in the U.N., had been at great pains first to assure himself that there were no A-bombs in Britain, then to assure Russia's Andrei Gromyko of that same fact. Gromyko, at first dubious, came to believe Baruch...
...less comprehensive title was awarded to Austine Cassini, modish Washington Times-Herald columnist. The title: "Most Magnificent Doll among American Newspaperwomen." The loot: a silver-plated typewriter. Also a trip to the premiere of a movie titled The Magnificent Doll...
...staffers of the overstaffed, New Dealing Chicago Sun, it was a sadder piece of news than the election (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). It caught Sports Editor Warren Brown as he arrived in Manhattan to cover the Army-Notre Dame game: he was fired, but could stay on as a columnist if he wanted-at lower pay. Lanky, stuttering Bascom Timmons, the Washington bureau chief, picked up a phone and heard it from Marshall Field himself: Timmons and all but four of the ten-man capital crew were through. Overseas correspondents got the word in depressing cables; city-room...
...trying too hard. . . . For a change, I'd like to hear some programs that go in for horse sense rather than strained nonsense. ... If any of the comedians needs convincing I'd suggest [he] dig up the writings of 'Kin' Hubbard, the oldtime [Indianapolis News] columnist, [who] said almost 40 years ago: ¶ 'The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket...