Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another newspaperman derricked out of his old job by the war, Jim Lucas had no desire to go back. He came home a lieutenant, surprised to find a flattering array of jobs thrust at him. He took the best one-roving columnist for the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance -and went at it like a marine. Last week his first column kicked up a fine fuss...
...Dealing Columnist Samuel Grafton wrote: "The President is in deep and serious trouble . . . because in a time of national indecision he embodies and personifies our indecision, rather than acts against it." C.I.O. President Phil Murray noted overtones in the Administration of ''the lazy housekeeper." The New Dealing Chicago Sun asked in a querulous tone: ''What is [the President] doing to make the issues plain to the people...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who got an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Louvain, got top marks from Woman's Home Companion readers in a poll of the living Americans they most admired. Runners-up, in order: President Harry S. Truman, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, ex-President Herbert Hoover and Motorman Henry Ford (tied for fifth place), ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, Crooner Bing Crosby and Comedian Bob Hope (also tied...
...wear Brooks clothes and white shoes all the time . . ." George Frazier wrote the lyrics and Count Basie recorded it, and it wasn't a bad tune. But according to Dorothy Kilgallen, King Features Broadway columnist, Harvard University didn't like "Harvard Blues...
Such talk moved the New York Times's tart Columnist Simeon Strunsky to remark: "Perhaps . . . Pravda will better understand what we mean by freedom of the press if we say it is a state of things, roughly speaking, in which Lenin [for five years, even with interruptions], could publish a Bolshevist newspaper...