Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justices fought each other by feeding their own accounts of the court's battles to newsmen and columnists, violating the confidences of the court and creating a flood of gossip. In fact, it was a leak to a columnist which had brought on Justice Jackson's blast...
...broke the news: "Her Grace" was about to remarry. The supposed groom-to-be: Charles Andrews Munroe, 71, retired midwest utilitycoon and international-setter. Almost immediately the item withered. Mrs. Vanderbilt and Son Cornelius Jr., quoted by the World-Telegram: ". . . too silly for words." Mrs. Vanderbilt, quoted by Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "It's all nonsense!" Mrs. Morin Hare, supposed matron-of-honor-to-be, to reporters: "It's fantastic . . . ridiculous . . . an outrage . . ." Mrs. Hare added: "We're taking her up to Newport...
Henry L Mencken, 65, lord high lambaster of the '20s, had a visit from Columnist Ward Morehouse and impersonated his old self. Nostalgic excerpts from the interview: "People are in a state of imbecility. The country is a wreck. . . . The United Nations has no more chance than the Ku Klux Klan would have in the Vatican...
Drew Pearson, brash, breathless, and sometimes knowing Washington columnist, wearing a smile for the photographer and getting a kiss from bridal-veiled Daughter Ellen (as Thurman Arnold's son George, the groom, stood by), beautified a Woodbury beauty soap...
Like most newsmen trained in fidelity to fact, newcomer Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert C. Ruark has long looked with amused incredulity at the ingenious, highly imaginative product of a money-making little tribe: the Broadway columnists. Last week, with a column to do it in, he gave his own parodic version of what thousands read under the impression that they are getting the inside dope, hot from Lindy's and the Stork Club...