Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week newsmen got wind of something else. This was a confidential memorandum on foreign affairs which Wallace had written to the President in July. Someone in Wallace's Commerce Department-doubtless thinking that this was an opportune time to embarrass the President-had given a copy to Columnist Drew Pearson, who intended to publish it. PM's I. F. ("Izzy") Stone somehow got a copy too. Other newspapermen demanded to see it. When the press roar became unbearable, bewildered Presidential Secretary Charlie Ross told Commerce to release the letter, and Commerce did. When Harry Truman heard that...
...meet eight times a year, to approve (rarely to reject) the decisions of the Corporation, which is the actual governing body. A sample list of Overseers past and present covers a lot of territory-from Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall and San Francisco's Mayor Roger Lapham to Columnist Walter Lippmann and Poet Robert Frost...
...rolls there was plenty of window dressing with such innocent names as Songstress Lily Pons and Author Henry Seidel Canby. But there were also the names of New York's Communist Councilmen Peter V. Cacchione and Ben Davis, Manhattan's Party-line Congressman Vito Marcantonio, Daily Worker Columnist Frederick V. Field. Communist-dominated unions were heavily represented...
...waist, 35½-in. bust, 36-in. hips, 22½-in. thigh, 13½-in. calf, and 8½-in. ankle -that 21-year-old one from California, name of Marilyn Buferd. "Oh my God," said Miss Buferd, "I never expected it." New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson immediately interviewed her. Had she any foibles? "Pardon me," retorted Miss Buferd icily, "I don't understand...
Married. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., 48, silver-spoon socialite turned tinsel journalist, roaming New York Post columnist ("Vagabonding with Vanderbilt"), son of high society's dowager queen; and Maria Feliza Pablos, 29, grandniece of Mexico's onetime Dictator-President Porfirio Diaz; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Reno...