Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearst's Washington columnist, unpleasantly good-natured George Dixon, passed along a capital gag. It purported to explain why Harry Truman was late to a press conference: "He got up this morning a little stiff in the joints and he is having difficulty putting his foot in his mouth...
Some men would have been ready to throw in the sponge. Few U.S. Presidents have ever been jeered at the way Harry Truman was jeered at last week. New Dealing Columnist Samuel Grafton mocked: "Poor Mr. Truman . . . an object for pity." The New Dealing Chicago Sun ran a merciless cartoon in clay (see cut). The lowest blow came from that low-blow expert, the Chicago Tribune. Squinting at the President, the Tribune pretended to see Edgar Bergen's Mortimer Snerd. Sample dialogue...
Persian leftists charged that the rebels were getting arms from "a foreign power." Britain indignantly denied any part in the revolt (causing New York Post Columnist Edgar Ansel Mowrer to exclaim: "then fate is pro-British"). Knowing Britons hinted that they would not be so foolish as to stir up a tribal revolt which would further weaken the Teheran Government, make it still more vulnerable to Russian pressure...
Plugs & Slugs. In his new job Clarke is ringmaster for a temperamental menagerie of talent, including Poison Penman John O'Donnell and Broadway Columnist Danton Walker, who has a crystal ball suffering from cataract. One of Clarke's chores is a daily conference with Editorial Writer Reuben Maury and Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor (who used to get their signals from Patterson). Sitting in with them now is a brand-newcomer, quiet, 44-year-old Donald Thompson, an American Weekly graduate. Clarke hired him to backstop Maury. Thompson expects no trouble in adapting himself to Daily News policies-plugs...
Died. Edwin Meade ("Ted") Robinson, 67, literary critic, Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist since 1910; of a heart attack; in Provincetown, Mass...