Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Firozkhan Noon, chief collector of British honors among the Moslems (K.C.S.L, K.C.I.E., Hon. LL.D., Toronto, Honorary Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford), mounted the platform. "From now on," he proclaimed, "I am Mister Noon." (Cracked one Hindu columnist: "Twilight would have been a better word than noon...
...columnist, Fisher carried chips on both shoulders. Readers found him as gabby as Winchell, as irascible as Pegler. He was as short-tempered with the New Deal as Mrs. Ailshie was, but the affinity ended there. From time to time the Statesman had to square itself with readers by slapping him down editorially. A one-time Mormon who now belongs to no church, he railed at Christmas, funerals, Sundays. When Catholics found it rough reading and complained, he promised last winter to offend them no more...
Drew Pearson, brash breathless Washington columnist, starred in the publicity trick of the week. In the New York Times his radio sponsor (the Frank H. Lee Co.) ran a full-page ad (cost: $4,800) announcing that "Pearson has attacked [the Ku Klux Klan] in radio broadcasts and newspaper columns. He was immediately . . . threatened with injury to life and limb should he set foot in [Georgia]. . . Mr. Pearson will deliver this Sunday's broadcast from the steps of the State capitol in Atlanta. . . . Mr. Pearson's life [has been insured] for One Million Dollars for the benefit...
...lanky governor nomineo called a press conference at his hotel here to deny columnist Drew Pearson's charge that he was supported by the Ku Klux Klan...
What do they think of union-needling Columnist Westbrook Pegler? Pungent examples: "Westbrook Pegler is a knight in brilliant array who should be knocked from his horse." "A sour-vinegar writer . . . who exposes the abuses of labor unions without giving due account to the good work that most unions...