Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, whose flag secretary Stassen had been, described him to a homecoming crowd: "A great naval officer, a great Governor, fit for any job you want to give him." Archconservative columnist Frank R. Kent wrote: "If there is a better Republican available no one has pointed him out." Even Columnist Mark Sullivan, who usually looks with distrust on men with advanced views like Harold Stassen's, praised his "boldness...
...away?" ¶ Dorothy Thompson declared that the U.S. could not give the bomb away because it did not own it: the world's scientists had given it to the "western world" to keep in sacred trust. Most scientists disagreed with her. Later, in a bit of atomic whimsy, Columnist Thompson wrote: "Scene: A ward in Bellevue. A screaming bearded gentleman is being hustled into a straitjacket. Guard: 'Completely coo-coo. Found him trying to board a ship. Yelled he was going to the Big Three meeting to save the world. Screamed he represented all the people on earth...
Even Colonel Robert S. Allen, the onetime Washington columnist who lost an arm in Germany-and the most outspoken critic of present artificial limbs-was mollified last week. Colonel Allen had lunch with six other amputees, Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, and Major General Paul R. Hawley of the Veterans' Administration, the man responsible for veterans' artificial limbs. Some time during the two-hour lunch, General Hawley made Allen chairman of a committee of amputees to pass on new prostheses (artificial devices), and told him to pick his own committee...
...Cissie's scurrilities go, these were mere warmups. The worst she saved for her ex-son-in-law Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, whom she mortally hates. Wrote Cissie: "Ah, Drew, rose-sniffing, child-loving, child-cheater, sentimental Drew. . . . Vicious and. . . ." (Eleven more lines, reflecting on Mr. Pearson's personal habits, have been deleted by TIME. To publish them might put TIME into court for disseminating a libel...
...higher than most of the others in the quality of its writing and its coverage, and its typography. In some departments, notably music and the dance, its critics are superior to the Times's. Under Mrs. Reid, the hiring & firing has shown spotty judgment. A good man like Columnist Franklin P. Adams was let go; Walter Lippmann was brought in; so was Lucius Beebe, with his ormolu prose. In the days of Alva Johnston and of Stanley Walker, the Trib's city coverage was the sprightliest in town...